Sublime

I left my car at work, ran to my apartment, did some push-ups, weighed myself, ran six miles around Poughkeepsie, came back home, locked the bedroom door, did more push-ups, said prayers, got in bed, and accepted no matter how much weight I lost, small, smart white boys would always have the power to make big black boys force them into buying our l

Toujours sans la présence d’avocat de la défense, mais aussi sans débat contradictoire ni confrontation avec la plaignante, le juge déclare les deux petits garçons coupables d’agression sexuelle et d’attentat à la pudeur et les condamne à une peine d’emprisonnement, au moins jusqu’à leurs 21 ans, dans une maison de correction pour Noirs (Morrison T

He could only be described in Le Conte’s limited official vocabulary by the words “poor attitude.” What an anxious and innocent word to try to pin on Aces, “attitude”! He was an enemy inside their walls. It was too late and there was no way to get him out of there because he was only 15 and the law says that 16 is the earliest you can get anything

And then he thought about Africa, and the Nazi experiment there. And his blood stopped in his veins, hesitated, at last went

Seeds of this organizing had been planted on Grey Street, where a shopkeeper had hired, in 1893, a young lawyer from his hometown in Gujarat. Upon arrival, the Oxford-educated lawyer was kicked off trains, insulted in courts, and beaten in the streets for his color—and soon realized the pervasive injustices facing Indians in South Africa. "I t

It is three tiers high inside the prison and everything is the color of gunmetal. Everything is dark and cold, except for those patches of light, where authority stands. There is on the air, perpetually, the memory of fists against the metal, a dull, booming tom-tom possibility, like the possibility of madness.

Now, what we are discussing has profound bearing upon the kind of assurance and guidance that should be given to children who seem destined to develop a sense of defeat and frustration. The doom of the children is the greatest tragedy of the disinherited. They are robbed of much of the careless rapture and spontaneous joy of merely being alive. Thr