August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
14h 7m
English
LAURA MORGAN ROBERTS, ANTHONY J. MAYO, and SERENITY LEE
We had a dream …
That one day our sons and daughters would grow up to be
Doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, preachers, politicians, and business owners …
Business owners?
Yes, Business owners. With a capital B.
Because back in the day, we were the Capital, see?
Bought and sold per pound of flesh
Tried and tested under great duress
The great “race” started with a gun shot [bang]
Sprinting to the finish line, before the closing bell rang.
This Land is our land.
Plowed by a sacred hand.
And claimed through a courageous stand.
—Laura Morgan Roberts, 2017
The foregoing poem, written by one of the editors of this volume, references the ...
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