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How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism

  • Written by Eurie Dahn, Associate Professor of English, The College of Saint Rose
How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activismPlaying with syntax, capitalization and punctuation marks can upend narratives put forth by the mainstream media.Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Using punctuation and capitalization as a form of protest doesn’t exactly scream radicalism.

But in debates over racial justice, punctuation can carry a lot of weight.

During the Black...

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