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antiwar activist and a vocal critic of racism in america. he was sentenced to five years in jail for refusing to fight in vietnam and was stripped of his heavyweight title. oppose what i want justice you who i oppose what i want equality. you will not even stand up for my religious beliefs and you will not even stand up for me. today, we will look at a side of mohammed ali that the history books often overlook. we will see the author of the complete mohammed ali and the polity elizabeth alexander who will read her poem. in 2009, reciting the inaugural poem when president obama first took office. all of that and more coming up. democracy to democracy now! thousands are expected to gather at the funeral for mohammed ali, one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century. he was considered the greatest boxer of all time and will also be remembered for his activism, after he his role refused military induction in 1967. this title was taken away from him and he was se ....
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life was on the internet or.? no, i wrote off-line, in print, for about 12 years almost exclusively, and it s so funny. colson whitehead has this recent piece about writers who complain that twitter and blogging is going to destroy their writing. and it s actually a split that i never really understood much. i love print, and i like blogging and i like tweeting. you know, i like a lot of things. and so it never really struck me as being in contrast or even being a problem or, you know, it being two different worlds or anything like that. it s just writing. hinojosa: you re able to divide up your time so that you can blog at one part of the day and then write long form at another part? uh, i don t even think about it like that. it s very unconscious for me. hinojosa: tell me how you do it. well, i m not good at much else, so that s the first thing, you know? i don t really have, like, other j. i m going to write. that s what i m going to do, or i m not going to ....
of it you can control. to be vulnerable and do the best work, and the diverse truth of people around the world, in the discourse, and the global something it was fabulous to see, and the issues in different ways to get the feminist, the immigrants, people who were concerned about police violence. it is not unusual to see dreamers who came here very young but are still deportable, involved in black lives matter. and very much involved in what is happening in haiti and brazil, and more and more, the new generation, we have these intersections. and we see what the gentleman was saying, we can t have change without one another. the merging of identity, what the writing should be, we do it sometimes for laughter, sometimes this other purpose. it is becoming somebody else, you should feel free within your imagination, if you want to write that is what is great about octavia butler, helping out with space travel and futurism, you can go to the past and the present where you ....
was saying, we can t have change without one another. the merging of identity, what the writing should be, we do it sometimes for laughter, sometimes this other purpose. it is becoming somebody else, you should feel free within your imagination, if you want to write that is what is great about octavia butler, helping out with space travel and futurism, you can go to the past and the present where you can go to the future and write about different people, you can be the black woman writer, you are free to do all of that. which actually brings us back to the beginning of the discussion, the destruction of that dualism, intersection out he seems to be the roadmap, that is the roadmap we have to follow as we move into the future. i think we are done. i want to thank our panelists, all the great questions and your attention, thank you very much. thank you so much. i want to leave with this quote from charles johnson. when art is at its best, it liberates our perception. ....