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Jason Bailey

Jason Bailey is a freelance writer and performance poet based in St. Louis. He is the editorial voice of The St. Louis Argus, the oldest Black owned business in Missouri and one of the oldest African-American publications in the country. You can read more of his work at his weblog www.kingpenchronicles.blogspot.com.

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Malcolm and Martin: The Struggle Continues

By Jason Bailey Guest Commentator

Recently I was helping my mother clean out her closets and get rid of old boxes. During the flurry of trashing old papers and reliving cherished memories Mother came upon a postcard that her late sister, my favorite aunt, kept in her office when she was a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The postcard…

Recently I was helping my mother clean out her closets and get rid of old boxes. During the flurry of trashing old papers and reliving cherished…

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