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A Dred Scott Moment About Trayvon Martin
By Leslye Joy Allen Historian, Educator, Theatre and Jazz Advocate, Doctoral Student Copyright © 2013 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. For even the worst student of American History, the case...
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Why We Fail: Forgetting Malcolm and Martin’s Internationalism
“Weary Self-Portrait 2” (Copyright © 2014 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved.) by Leslye Joy Allen Copyright © 2014 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. As bad as things are in the...
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A Turk Talks Atlanta: Another Perspective of Race and America
Wear Self-Portrait 2 (Copyright © 2014 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved.) By Leslye Joy Allen Copyright © 2014 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. On Wednesday, September 10, 2014, I...
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An Encounter with the Police on My Way to Latin Class
By Leslye Joy Allen Copyright © 2015 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. Most of my encounters with police have been rare and routine. Most of the police officers I have dealt with have been...
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They Should Live Where You Live
by Leslye Joy Allen Copyright © 2016 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. “Self Portrait,” Copyright © Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. I am not going to rant about the deaths of unarmed...
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On This September 15, 2016
By Leslye Joy Allen “Self Portrait” by Copyright © 2015 Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. Leslye Joy Allen, Copyright © 2016. All Rights Reserved. Today is my play big brother Walter Dallas’...
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Before He Ever Got to the White House
Copyright © by Leslye Joy Allen A few people just asked me what I remembered about our current president before anyone ever dreamed about his occupying the White House. Here goes. First things...
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Of Violence and LO$$
By Leslye Joy Allen Copyright © by Leslye Joy Allen As the Trump administration orders and sanctions attacking immigrant women and children with teargas at the US-Mexico border, let’s consider the long...
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#ImWithKap: A Lesson My Father Taught Me
by Leslye Joy Allen Copyright © by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved I did not watch Super Bowl LIII in my hometown of Atlanta, Georgia largely in protest of the NFL’s mishandling and mistreatment...
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Covid, Cuba, and Human Rights
by Leslye Joy Allen Copyright © by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. As we approach what many people hope is the end of the COVID-19, or I should say the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, let us consider a...
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