Abstract:As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage and disproportionately affect BIPOC, we keep count of the death toll around the world, in the U.S., in our own communities and in our own families. How can we have a “wish to live,” while so many around us die? Does a space exist between fateful (faithful) optimism present in Aretha Franklin’s, “Mary Don’t You Weep?” and the ever-present power structure, that as Reverend Al Sharpton noted, has always had its knee on our necks? More concretely, how do we reconcile what… Show more
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