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Boonaa Mohammed
He writes about the themes of his own life: being of an immigrant family, being Muslim, being Canadian, and his Oromo roots. You don’t have to have any of those things in common with him to be moved by his work. Continue reading
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Kerry Washington’s AMAZING performance of 1851 speech by Sojourner Truth
I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me!
And ain’t I a woman? Continue reading
