Can I Poet with You – June Jordan
Eloquent and fiery, activist June Jordan remains one of my favorite poets although her output stopped when she passed in […]
Language & Words
May I poet with you – Al Young
Following is a favorite poem from “back in the day” that still touches me, thrills me reading it now. the […]
Can I poet with you? Langston Hughes
One of the poets I love the most is Langston Hughes. I read his book, The Sweet Flypaper of Life, […]
Meditation
Fifteen minutes today. A quiet place in the house – usually the sofa, blinds closed. I start out with the […]
Positive Statistics about Black Men
I wonder if I should even bother with this post. After all, the Black men I know personally are positive […]
Searching…Searching…the Internet
Having always been an information and story aficionado (a more polite word than junkie), the Internet has become my go-to […]
My mother prays for me
For the first time in many years, I have seen my mother twice in the course of two months. (Yes, […]
Silence/Words
Why silence? I go to silence first when the room has heated up. Sometimes I’m in the room, completely. Sometimes […]
Write on the Dot – Vol. III featuring me
A short story of mine has just been published in Write on the Dot: Volume III. It is available for […]
Is that Me?
Is that me? Am I that impatient, pushy and stubborn? Yes. Yes. And No. Yes, I am impatient especially when […]
Only one way
You know what you know but you don’t know what I know.Although you assume you do when you proselytize. Every […]
Extinction-level conversation
My Aunt Fannie once told me that the argument that led to her divorce from her first husband started about […]
Love-Cuts
This is what I’ve observed: that sometimes, most times the people who cut you are the closest to you, the […]
What Social Justice Means (to me)
Social justice is the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities. Social workers aim to […]
Sojourner’s Truth
This the exact quote that woke me up from my sleep: “And ain’t I a woman?” The full text of […]
I don’t care…let me explain
I don’t care cause care don’t get you nowhere is a retort my friends and I used to fling around […]
Stepping Out of my Comfort Zone
On Tuesday, Friday and Saturday I stepped outside of my comfort zone with great results. Just thought I’d share. I’ll […]
It’s great to be useful
The email jumped out at me. I knew the writer. She’d purchased my booklet, Pushing through Shyness and had written […]