Belated
/…eight year old skin is purple,
the colour of blackberries
lacerating on our courtyard floor
under the season’s impetuous…
By Basudhara Roy
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Bitter or Better
/Robben Island Prison - it was the closest thing to hell on this earth. He spent 27 longs years there in a 7' by 9' cell before becoming the country's President. Life's challenges make us bitter or better. It is our choice.
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…said to be closest thing to hell in this world. The small three square mile island, located a few miles off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, had been a prison for political dissidents since the 17th century. The prison was…
By Pete Black
Read MoreA Former Immigrant Juvenile's Feelings and Views on Race and Color in America
/…the '70's, deep in the South, I was white but raised black by a black man. As a boy, I have watched the Ku Klux Klan on the news—and was frightened as a…
By Ngoc Nguyen
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/…the races have mixed
And the look is exotic
And the hue of the skin
And curvaceous…
By Sharon Cunningham
Read MoreThe Soul In His Eyes
/…can’t breathe as they eat his flesh alive,
how can a man ever survive?
if they disregard the soul in his eyes
and drink up all those ailing, lethal…
By Enas R
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