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Cheryl Gittens-Jones lives in the USA. She is a practicing Buddhist, a stay-at-home mom, poet, writer and novice photographer who has an opinion about everything. Cheryl visted Senegal, West Africa,on a research trip the 1990s. There, she came face to face with the horrible legacy of slavery at the Door of No Return on Goree Island. Her writing is centered on the plight of the 'other', and thematically holds to the relationships between exile, displacement and identity. See Cheryl’s articles at Suite 101.com and at her blog Sepiagurlsweetspot.
The execution of George Junius Stinney Jr., age 14
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968) “Over 67 years after 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. was put to death by the state of South Carolina, he may soon be cleared of the crime [...]
A steady anger burns within me Welling up from deep Deep inside Three-fifths of a human being The sacred constitution of the Red, white and blue Walking into a room My blackness goes My blackness goes Goes before me Those of the majority Not all Not few But many Still do not see See me [...]
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