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Bisexual Content: June Jordan identified as bisexual. One essay contains bisexual content.
Intersecting Marginalized Identities: Several essays address marginalized groups (black, Nicaraguan, Palestinian.) June Jordan was black.
Publisher's Summary: Poet and activist June Jordon wrote her way to the forefront of political analysis, witness and moral summoning for more than half a century. These essays, written over the course of her life, document her ongoing leadership and commitment in every conflicted sphere of our second millennium lives: the theft of democracy insode the United States, racial and gender inequlity, and the failure of imagination that upholds all forms of injustice. In Some of Us Did Not Die, June Jordan calls us to a faithful position of outspoken resistance and hope.