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When You Believe, God Makes Your Life Unbelievable
Contributed by Joseph Smith on Feb 4, 2001 (message contributor)
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1. The Loveliest Lynchee
Contributed on Feb 4, 2001
The poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, recently deceased African-American poet, illustrates how a commitment to justice begins with hope, turns to a sense of responsiblity, rises to act, but also acknowledges the depth of human sin.
The dateline was to be Little Rock, Arkansas, September 1957. The story was to be about the vicious hatred of a city whose people were resisting justice and terrifying school children. Little Rock, Arkansas, where Governor Orval Faubus had become the symbol of massive resistance, and where an ...read more