Publications

Read the powerful writings from graduates of the Clemente Course in which they explore the connections between personal experience, civic engagement and democracy.

Clementinos: Voices from the Clemente Writing Project

By Gri Martinez Saex Among mountains, valleys, and the Macacias River there is a small town twenty-one miles from the Haitian border, and 137 miles from Santo Domingo. Las Matas de Farfan, is part of the San Juan Province deep into the Furnia de Catanamatias and surrounded by the Cordillera Central Mountain Range that runs […]

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I Am My Hair

By Alexandra Rosa Fierce is she? Indeed she is. Her curls wrap around her head like a bouquet of wildflowers on a beautiful summer day.

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Red State [of Mind]

By Kelly Russell When my much younger sister, in her midtwenties now, Tells me during our biweekly zoom sesh that She wants to move to

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A Letter to My Son

By Lynda Dolin Jeelyn, my son, my love, my angel, no words are enough to describe the pain and bitterness that your absence causes me.

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This is Your Democracy

Onyedikachi Nwogu Worcester In July 2020, I was harassed and arrested because of my sexuality for a third time. I was still living in Abia State, Nigeria and it was about 7 or 8 p.m. Normally a driver at my job would bring me home at the end of the day, but that day he […]

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Brittney Washington Springfield One day, sitting at home watching TV, I got a phone call from my brother, and we started chatting about the election

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Jaseth Beason Belchertown When I was a child, voting was a little confusing to me. I usually asked my parents why voting was important. My

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Don Vo Worcester I enrolled in Clemente at exactly the right time: the year when Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice died at the

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We, Too, Are America

Larry Madden Even on the morning of my mother’s funeral, I was trying to find a way out of it. The idea of spending time with a happy, loving family has always interested me. Spending time with mine has not. I had, after all, just spent several hours masked and wrapped in plastic sitting at […]

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