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Reggie Harris on the Edmund Pettus Bridge

Selma: “There is Power in the Blood”

By pwsadmin / August 13, 2021 / Comments Off on Selma: “There is Power in the Blood”

Camera lenses, like childhood memories, make spaces appear much larger than they are. Like the Dallas book repository, like the Lorraine Motel, Selma emerges, from the cold rain, small – only a…

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The Hallelujah Statue at the Whitney Plantation

On the Eve of the Whitney Plantation

By pwsadmin / August 13, 2021 / Comments Off on On the Eve of the Whitney Plantation

Once in Decatur, Georgia, a conversation on Race led to one of my hosts getting up and coming back with a folded white piece of paper. He extended it out to me…

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Greg Greenway and Reggie Harris at the Edmund Pettus Bridge March

Marching in the Arc of Justice: Birmingham

By pwsadmin / August 13, 2021 / Comments Off on Marching in the Arc of Justice: Birmingham

In the dim gray light of a rainy Thursday, reluctant Birmingham looks like every city. From my 12th floor window, I’m thinking about my mother in Richmond, Virginia, 96, spending most of her days…

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A Ukelele, a Book, and a Vase of White Roses on Top of a Small White Round Table

On the Death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

By pwsadmin / July 12, 2021 / Comments Off on On the Death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Solamente la vida I am writing a song now that I do not know how to write. The music came in the case with my new ukulele. Honestly, I picked…

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The Children of the Whitney Statues

The Land is Blameless

By pwsadmin / July 12, 2021 / Comments Off on The Land is Blameless

“The Children of the Whitney” by Woodrow Nash

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