A meeting was held April 30 at the Westwood Baptist Church in West Asheville, ostensibly to address the issue of voter disenfranchisement and the new Voter ID laws being promulgated by the tea party and Republicans. But a funny thing happened on the way to the forum: The disenfranchised population of Buncombe County, those most […]
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Bold poetry, past and present
Poet Ekere Tallie is not afraid of sensitive topics, from her family’s experiences in the Jim Crow South to her life as an African American in a post-September 11 age.