CULTURE | VOL. I ISSUE I | 2024 A World Reborn great depression “The and the African Americans’ struggle for equality.” pp. 20-22 Valdivia 1960, a prose. p. 5 LITERACY | KNOWLEDGE CULTERATE.COM ARTICLE | POETRY | PROSE “Covid-19's impact on Asian discrimination.” pp. 20-22 Wail, a poem. p. 5
REBORN In the wake of COVID-19, the world scrambled to its feet as we found ourselves in a new state entirely. Economies plummeted, education halted, and governments failed. But most of all, deaths– of our people, souls, and spirit. In such despair, we were forced to face our own mortality, all while rebuilding lives around us. Moments of adversity can unveil humans’ nature. i
EDITORIAL TEAM CONTRIBUTORS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF POETRY Keisya Cleine POETRY EDITOR Smilla Philippine ARTICLE EDITOR Isabela Silva Pereira PROSE EDITOR Eishal Faisal ARTICLE Alicia Somerset Alyssa Hayes Claudia Wysocky Elizabeth Lydia Evelina Velma Jacob Mitchell Icha Rizky Jenny Wu Jillian Lei Belaro M. Farel Fahrezi Kamilla Dahir Sofia Ida Cestari Mk Zariel Rose Alessi Sophie Winders ABOUT ISSUE I: A WORLD REBORN PROSE Erika Gallion Blanka Pillár Julia Sanchez Lily Patel Mark Connelly Zahra Putri This issue received submissions throughout August to September of 2024. Our contributors are talented young authors (16-24) from all over the world. We are beyond honored to be trusted by such exceptional thinkers and artists, and proud to present their works. We hope that their ii
Americans’ Struggle for Equality JACOB MITCHELL [Great depression interview with Maya Angelou, April 11th 1992] Interviewer : .. there was lynching going on at the time. Maya Angelou : Mm-hm. Interviewer : What was the kind of psychic effect on the folks in your community? Maya Angelou : In the community – even before a lynching – when a black man had been accused of something which terribly offended the white community, the news went around the black community like a string of Chinese firecrackers being set off [imitates firecrackers popping]. I don’t know how it got around so fast. And then a pall, a cloud of gloom and fear, would settle over the community like a heavy blanket being put over a light, like a little candle. And you could see it, sense it, but also see the sag of people’s shoulders when they’d come into the store and just shake their heads. And I'm sure it is exactly the same universal sense of loss, fear, dread, and terror that was obtained in Russia when the pogroms were rife in the shtetls, when people knew, "Uh oh, here they come. The Cossacks are coming." Introduction . Slavery, segregation, and lynching painted the landscape of livelihood for African Americans for a long time. It was the same in 1929. Racial segregation was enforced in many areas of public life, including schools, workplace, housing, transportation, and healthcare. The black community in America faced job discrimination, voter suppression, and denial of basic human access to services and opportunities. Lynching, often by public hanging, burning, or shooting, was still in widespread as a brutal form of racial terror used to intimidate or punish them. But this was the year that the Great Depression began. In this essay, I would like to discuss how this depressive state, which lasted approximately nine years, impacted the African American people of the time, and how it forever changed the landscape of racism in the United States. 2
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