This week I have chosen to write a creative piece in the style of James Agee and Walker Evans: Continue reading “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Agee and Walker, 1941)”
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Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices
Wright once asked: “Could words be weapons?” 12 Million Black Voices shows that they definitely could. It is, in fact, a work about the unsung stories and living conditions more hardly felt by the African American communities that suffered extensively during the Great Depression. Continue reading “Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices”