Showing posts with label #BLM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #BLM. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

ANTHEM FOR THE WOKE

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by Geoffrey Philp ‘Stay Woke, Go Vote’ rally stirs spirited emotions, heartfelt pleas — South Florida Sun-Sentinel , May 22, 2022   Where ar...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

THE ARTIST

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by Louise Wilford Covered in red and blue graffiti, the toppled statue of British politician Edward Colston, who enslaved tens of thousands ...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

BLACK MAN RUNNING

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by L. Smith "At the end of the day, the evidence in this case will prove that if Ahmaud Arbery had been White, he would have gone for a...
Monday, February 07, 2022

FOR KAREN, MOTHER OF AMIR

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by Jennifer Hernandez An officer with the Minneapolis Police Department SWAT team shot and killed a 22-year-old man early Wednesday morning ...
Friday, November 19, 2021

ONCE AGAIN REALITY

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by Buff Whitman-Bradley Source: Puzzle Warehouse Once again reality Has collided with fantasy. Once again the truth About America Has crashe...

DUNCAN AND BRADY

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by Julian O. Long after the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict   Speaking of ’lectric cars, once at a Fort Worth stop sign a lowrider lifted a fender ...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

THEY CALLED HIM A "F-ING N—"

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by Rémy Dambron Ahmaud Arbery's aunt, Theawanza Brooks, says, "Nobody has the decision to make as far as being the judge, jury and ...
Friday, May 21, 2021

A BRIEF GEOGRAPHY OF GOODBYES

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by Mary K O'Melveny "Red Composition" by Jackson Pollock Everyone who knows grief as it settles onto chests, humid as a jungle...
Monday, May 10, 2021

VERDICT

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by Donna Katzin Demonstrators march towards Boston Police Headquarters to protest the police-perpetrated killing of 16-year-old Ma'Khia ...
Friday, April 30, 2021

TORNADO SIREN

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by Julie L. Moore Unmoored from its original empirical underpinnings, particularly with respect to African Americans...  ‘Blackness’ has bec...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

ODE TO CARIOL HORNE

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by  Julie L. Moore November 2006, Buffalo— Cariol channeled Fannie Lou, meeting white rage dressed in blue that throttled Black breath with ...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

HE CALLED FOR HIS MAMA

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by Laurie Rosen When I gave birth to my son without the aid  of narcotics or an epidural, pain searing, I called  for my Mama. A grown woman...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

FOR DAUNTE WRIGHT

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by Rebecca Surmont Video still from KARE 11 TV·via  The New York Times , April 13, 2021. Again. Again a gun. When can we end what has begun?...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

FROM THE CORE OF OUR WORLD

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by  Angelica Whitehorne The sad leaked like ripe fruit from the core of our world The men in blue pepper sprayed a nine year old girl  I don...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

IN-SUH-REK-SHUHN

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by Rémy Dambron they said this man was just like them we said he doesn’t feel the same they said he said that’s just fake news we said this ...