The "Can America be America At All?" booklet provides a backdrop to explore two poems:
"Let America Be America Again" (written by Langston Hughes in 1935 and published in 1936) and "Can America Be America At All?" (written by Peter Damian Bellis in July 2020). Bellis' poem pays homage to Hughes, but it is also a reflection on the meaning and implications of Hughes' poem in light of the wave of protests across the nation demanding not only justice for George Floyd, but justice for all who have suffered and for all who have died because of racism, protests that seem to cut across racial boundaries and are calling for an end to racism period, and a final end to the suffering and pain caused by inequality of any kind.

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