Showing posts with label Emmett Till. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emmett Till. Show all posts
Sunday, November 06, 2022

THE HEART OF IT ALL

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by Bradley McIlwain Whitman— I hear the chains Across N. America At Capitol Hill Where we’ve all become  Capital— Loose change In the pocket...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

IN WHICH I INTERROGATE MY FREQUENT RESPONSE

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by Eileen Ivey Sirota Surveillance video shows a Black 17-year-old struggling with staff at a Wichita juvenile center last fall before his d...
Monday, October 25, 2021

LIZZO

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by Judy Juanita I am 100% behind you baby girl Behind your superb black ass Behind your exponential black ass Behind all the big black women...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

JANUARY 20, 2021 / DATE POEM

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by  Ethan Thayumanavan Born November 20, 1942. Inaugurated on January 20, 2021.   Born June 14, 1946. Inaugurated on January 20, 2017.   Rub...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

WITH A FACE LIKE MINE

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by Rachel Mallalieu I don’t want this to be  about me, but of course it’s always about me With a face like mine, a thousand ships w...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

GHAZAL

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by Judith Terzi Emmett Till (July 25, 1941 - August 28, 1955) Heather Heyer (May 29, 1985 - August 12, 2017) Simeon Wright die...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

UNDER THE GOD, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, 12 AUGUST 2017

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by Kenneth E. Harrison, Jr.            Watchin' their heads in the toilet bowl            Don't see supremacist hate
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

3/5 OF ALL OTHER BEATS AND RHYTHMS: 2006 TO 2015

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by Elbert Tavon Briggs Black Line-Carved Djembe Drum The beats make me think The drums keep beating That same Ole beat ag...
Friday, August 28, 2015

EMMETT TILL'S CORPSE TURNS SIXTY

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by Philip C. Kolin from  Jet Magazine , September 15, 1955 via JetCityOrange . Sixty years ago today I started my life as a corp...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

1955

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by Philip C. Kolin     Emmett Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) A year of fantasies, allowed sorcery-- Disneyland opens in Anahei...