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Questions/Answers (for Black U.S. citizens applying to register to vote in Selma, Alabama, in 1963—based on actual exams)
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Questions/Answers (for Black U.S. citizens applying to register to vote in Selma, Alabama, in 1963—based on actual exams)

Issue 140: June 2023

Questions/Answers (for Black U.S. citizens applying to register to vote in Selma, Alabama, in 1963—based on actual exams)

By Editor| 2023-06-02T13:59:55-07:00 June 15th, 2023|Categories: Issue 140: June 2023|Tags: voter suppression, Black suffrage, Jim Crow, poll tax, Poetry, Ellen Girardeau Kempler, right to vote|

By Ellen Girardeau Kempler After you pay your poll tax, Boy, I’ll ask you how many jellybeans are in the big jar I keep on my Registrar’s desk? How many bubbles are in this bar of soap? How many seeds are in a watermelon, any watermelon? (An answer you should naturally know.) How many drops [...]

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Stop Light

Issue 131: 19 June 2021

Stop Light

By Editor| 2021-06-18T14:17:40-07:00 June 19th, 2021|Categories: Issue 131: 19 June 2021|Tags: Poetry, D.A. Gray, right to vote, the common good, elitism, voter suppression|

By D.A. Gray “Embrace diversity. Unite — Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those that see you as prey. Embrace diversity or be destroyed.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower The light works for now. We’re stopped at an intersection beside the Walgreens and its half-full parking lot, safely in our lanes, [...]