Maya Angelou’s talks about her poem “Harlem Hopscotch” - in which she addresses race, poverty and survival in America and it’s connection to white critics understanding black art, what gets lost in translation..
On this day in 1899, 19 year old Frank Embree was tortured, castrated, skinned and then lynched in front of a cheering crowd, for a crime he didn’t commit in 1899. Though published photographs clearly depicted the faces of his assailants, no one was ever arrested.
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