Tags: slavery
Sometimes You Can't Say a Word

Jonathan L. Walton.

For a people who bear the burden of slavery, legalized apartheid and the continued vestiges of both, for a moment the elusive goal of feeling fully part of America’s democratic project was realized.

Belated July 4th Video: The Greatest Speech of the (19th) Century

Jonathan L. Walton.

“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” illumines the hypocrisy of a nation unable to check and challenge itself concerning its own moral hubris.