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Karrington has been a resident of the Lansing area for 6 years and has become very active in the community that he now calls home. Through Black Lives Matter Lansing, Lansing Residents United, and his church home Lansing Area Church Of Christ he has maintained his commitment to being a positive force no matter where he is. As a Detroit native, the arts and community organizing have been a major part of his life that he will never turn away form. Sociology and anthropology are the passions that give him the strength to advocate for his community and other marginalized communities. As Langston Hughes said, " Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is like a broken-winged bird that can not fly. Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go life is a barren field frozen with snow." Black Lives Matter Lansing is a small chapter—but what we lack in size, we make up for in influence. Over the past two years, we have successfully centered the issues of Black folks in Metro Lansing
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome By Michael Parenti The New Press, 2003 276 pages History Review by Mark Polzin “How many ages hence/Shall this our lofty scene be acted o’er” remarks Cassius after the murder of Caesar in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (III.i.112-113). When that scene has been acted on stage or written about by historians, Caesar is generally depicted as a tyrant, and his assassins as defenders of republican liberties. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome, author Michael Parenti strongly challenges that portrayal. Parenti argues that Caesar was assassinated not because he was a tyrant that abused his power, but because he was a reformer who looked out for the common people of Rome. The wealthy elites of the Roman Senate struck him down to avoid sharing their own wealth and power as a result of future reforms like those Caesar had already implemented. The depiction of Caesar as
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