It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. James A. Baldwin Get up and go to the movies and see the documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.” This week, before the documentary leaves the theaters. For me, sitting in […]
We have long talked about the USA being at the doorway of fascism, of totalitarianism. Now we joke bitterly that in the face of Trump, Bush doesn’t seem so bad. And now, sadly, finally we have arrived and are stepping over the threshold to the end of this nation as […]
In addition to her work as a journalist, radio personality and television host and producer Kiilu has written hundreds of letters to political prisoners. She also uses her disability to spur her to activism rather than excuse her from continuing to struggle. ************ Letter writing was once considered a literary […]
Kiilu Nyasha is one of my sheroes. She became politically aware as a youth and has been an active member of the struggle to bring human rights and dignity to all people. What is especially impressive about her struggle is that a significant amount of her revolutionary activism has been accomplished as a disabled […]
On Wednesday January 18, 2017 in a windy, cold pouring rain storm San Francisco’s Main Library’s Koret Auditorium under the auspicious of the SFPL and LItquake filled with people listening to writers responding to the looming reality of a Trump presidency. It was an honor for me to be […]
I was brought up knowing that my grandparents were West Indian immigrants. I knew my father was born with dual citizenship. It wasn’t until this part of our talks that I realized how it affected him. Earlier you said you didn’t really think of yourself as a child of immigrants despite […]
My father lived on 117th near Lennox, now Malcolm X Boulevard. Many of his stories were about that neighborhood which holds so much romance in the American, especially Black American, historical memory. Let’s talk about Harlem. What was it like on your block, in your corner of the ‘hood? The […]
A friend e-mailed me recently asking if I she could use a poem I sent to her a while ago. I read the poem and for just over a day could not remember whose dead I spoke of. The names gave clues, Syria was freshest, but then it could have […]
giovanni singleton is a writer who is always seeking to find new lands where her ideas can root and new seas where they can sail. Award winning Poet and editor, , visual poet, and prose writer, giovanni singleton is a writer who dares to be herself. e.e. cummings once wrote […]
Coming back to the blank space of my blog is not unlike facing the blank page. I have so many thoughts pressing out. The question is where do I begin? Actually though beginnings are rarely the problem the thought or breath the stroke or settle that word- the second step […]
