This New York Times article provides some background about Don Imus, a popular radio host in 2007, and the fallout from him having referred to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team as a bunch of “nappy-headed ho’s.”

Call number: HV6432 .B88 (2nd floor)
The author responds in this appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current U.S. policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.
Source: ARC Library catalog

Read and/or listen to a transcript of Glenn Ligon speaking about the inspiration and process of this art.