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Crimson Record on modern day lynching
Domestic News

Modern Day Racist Violence Breeds Strange Fruit in the 21st Century

September 12, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe “Strange Fruit” was a poem later turned into a protest song which was popularized by the legendary Jazz singer Billie Holiday in 1939. The poem and later song were composed by a […]
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International News

The only bars across my window I can see | The war-proof home of poetry | The death of a poem | Robots are taught the mindlessness of genocide

July 14, 2026 fwstaff
  THE ONLY BARS ACROSS MY WINDOW I CAN SEE to my lynched great uncle Silas Hoskins, one day we will name a green, lush garden after you the only bars across my window I […]