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Nation’s Poet Sings to Victims of Violence in Baton Rouge, St. Louis and Dallas - The deaths of two African-American men shot by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Saint Paul, Minnesota sparked mass protests nationwide. In Dallas, Texas, five police were killed by a sniper, in an incident linked to the other deaths. The pain that these acts caused inspired U.S. Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, to dedicate a poem to the victims of violence in all three cities. Here is the poem read by the author and a conversation with Radio Bilingüe’s news director, Samuel Orozco. This is part of the series, “Hablando de la Raza”.
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