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?...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

NOT MERELY A GENTLE PROD

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by Sharon Olson “Ecstasy of St. Teresa” by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. As Bernini would have it, Teresa entered a quasi-orgasmic state, calling ou...
Monday, April 12, 2021

TO THE REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS OF ARKANSAS

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by Pepper Trail Trying to appeal to your humanity after the actions you have taken, the words you have said, seems as futile an exercise as ...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

ECHOES OF MERCY, WHISPERS OF LOVE

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by Earl J. Wilcox In a back room of the home nestled among pines and dogwoods— bam bam   bam— shots over and over, bullets  felling grandfat...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

HOW SUBTLY IT HAPPENED

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by William Doreski Secretly, I slip the daylight moon into my pocket. A crowd has formed. As I approach, stainless things clatter. A cop   k...
Friday, April 09, 2021

FLORIDA MAN AT THE CAPITOL

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by Mickey J. Corrigan Cartoon by Andy Marlette. On the same marble floor where legislation is passed and the invaders broke in on January 6t...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY, 2021

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by Howie Good The SS officer rolled the corpse over, and the girl saw the face of her music teacher, with blood here and there. He had gone ...
Wednesday, April 07, 2021

THE CONDITIONAL CASE FOR CONVICTION

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by Diana Cole A patron of a laundromat near Cup Foods watching the Derek Chauvin trial on Monday. Credit: Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The Ne...
Tuesday, April 06, 2021

IT'S THE QUICK PRICKS

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by Tricia Knoll You lament we’ve missed so much theater, solstice estivals, state fair curly fries, Aunt Moo’s 75th birthday at the river   ...
Monday, April 05, 2021

THE DIRECTOR'S CUTS YOU DIDN'T SEE

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by Joseph Hope The United States Country Report on Human Rights Practice in Nigeria , published on March 31, 2021, tepidly states that “On O...
Sunday, April 04, 2021

SPRING (IS THE SEASON)

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by Jeremy Nathan Marks A row of flowers with tags of the victims’ names are tied to a fence at the site of a shooting at King Soopers grocer...
Saturday, April 03, 2021

BUFFALO SOLDIER

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by Katherine West America’s growing Black community is “not a monolithic population, but one that has people of many different demographic, ...
Friday, April 02, 2021

LINGUICIDE

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by Akua Lezli Hope   No elder bids are there to sing Regent honeyeaters’ male song So young ones copy other things their bird culture nearly...