Showing posts with label Civil Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil Rights. Show all posts
Sunday, January 25, 2026

DIRGE FOR AMERICANS

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by Greg Friedman   shoot first  lie after    They came in search of virgin  land but found earth who was  mother, sky who was father  to tho...
Sunday, October 05, 2025

PUBLICITY STUNT

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By Matt Witt Danny Danon,  Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, on X. When 500 leaders from 40 countries formed a flotilla to try to de...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

LOWNDES COUNTY

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by Mariana McDonald Source: Balls and Strikes , April 21, 2025. Pictured: Harmeet Dhillon,  Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Depart...
Friday, February 10, 2023

CRT MEETS THE LITTLE ROCK NINE

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by   Margaret Rozga Sarah Huckabee Sanders appears in the center of my television screen. Her head and shoulders in sharp focus, that camera...
Saturday, April 02, 2022

TIME'S UP

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by Judy Juanita “Burn this city,” a photograph by Anthony Citro. Just because Woolworth's lunch counters were integrated And black peopl...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

PASSAGE

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by Daniel Brown in memory of victims of the   16th Street Baptist Church bombing , Birmingham, AL, September 15, 1963 They cro...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

NOBODY SHOULD WANT INEQUALITY TO EXIST

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by Shirley JonesLuke Detail from “Answers to Your Protest Questions” by Chelsea Saunders at The Nib, June 12, 2020 Inequality is sto...
Monday, February 11, 2019

WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I SPOKE LIKE A CHILD . . .

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by Marsha Owens When did he have an epiphany? she asked unclear about how one is racist and then is not. I know how life meanders...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

LAW RAP

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by Ian Patrick Williams We fought the British army to create a new democracy But it turned out just to be a lesson in hypocrisy Ins...
Wednesday, December 05, 2018

ANOTHER DEAD PRESIDENT

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by Lee Patton Just wait, another long week of non-news—the demise itself, long expected, the prepackaged obits, the lugubrious com...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

THE TOILET PROBLEM

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Barbara A Taylor ’s free verse poems, renku, haiga, haibun, haiku, tanka, and other Japanese short form poetry appear in many interna...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

RESPECTING BELIEFS

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by F.I. Goldhaber Ad created by AML If your beliefs include marginalizing other people because of their skin color, their religiou...
Friday, July 17, 2015

LOW BEAMS IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA

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by James Croteau Along the Mississippi Delta. Image source: My American Odyssey Only low beams lit the road as my parents drove ...
Monday, March 09, 2015

ALABAMA ATTEMPTS TO STAND STILL

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by Jay Sizemore Alabama is also on the front lines of what some see as the modern-day successor to the civil rights movement. Although...
Friday, June 14, 2013

ON FLAG DAY I THINK BACK TO MY YOUNG STUDENTS SPEAKING

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by Jane Herschlag Photo: Jane Herschlag                                    Two planes, each crashed into one tower.               ...