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My Observations on Sarah E. Wright’s Monumental “This Child’s Gonna Live” – Endorsed by the author!
On the political level, Sarah Wright was most influenced by a strong Left tradition whose heroes and models in the black community were Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Dubois, and which had its literary representative in the 1960s in the journal Freedomways, edited by Esther Jackson. While Ms. Wright’s primary focus was on the plight of African-Americans,…
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With Friends Like These (Workers International)
Just as a football coach knows that one cannot repeatedly plow through the middle of the line, that sometimes one has to run to the right, sometimes a little to the left, and sometimes far to the left in order to keep the opposition off balance, so those who wield political power understand the need…