Poems Matter: Text and Meaning in Claude McKay’s ‘If We Must Die’ (part 2)

(Official Postered Chromatic Poetics for Aberjhani’s Bright Skylark Literary Productions ©2021) In the current era, a highly-publicized disproportionate threat to African Americans due to unnatural causes––specifically, violence inflicted upon unarmed African-American men and women by armed policemen–– has been acknowledged by the Black Lives Matter Movement, the United Nations, and numerous social justice organizations around the world. A similar threat in 1919 existed in the form of lyn...