Art as loud as words.

• Position: Letter to the editor

I am a new subscriber. I'm checking out The Progressive to discover whether you include in your articles a level of hope, good sense, and compassion that I am trying to gather around myself for inspiration.

So far, so good, after three months. In April, though, there was something I would have liked to have seen done differently. In Luis J. Rodriguez's column, "Black-Brown Unity Now," the illustration shows two men with guns pointed at the reader's head. Their faces show closed and lonely...