Classics of Black American Protest Poetry
27min2020 OCT 20
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Gwendolyn Brooks’ “To Prisoners” is both a prayer for those imprisoned and a rallying cry forjustice. In this episode, we discuss the issue of mass incarceration of African Americans as the“New Jim Crow,” and explore the focus of African American protest today, with poet ReginaldDwayne Betts and actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith.