Poetry: Haikus by Willie Perdomo33.This evening’s Black soundWalks like a cat on grass bladesYour nickname two-stepsRead More Song In My Head: It’s All Right by The Impressions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1LLwC7N1h8 Art: Mickalene Thomas’s Le Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe Les Trois Femme Noires Photo credit: mickalenethomas.com Quote: “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged …
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Poetry: A People’s Historian by Kenneth CarrollFor Howard Zinnwho will come to tell us what we knowthat the king’s clothes are soiled withthe history of our blood and sweatRead More Song In My Head: Hold On by Alabama Shakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le-3MIBxQTw Art: Augusta Savage’s Gamin Photo credit: americanart.si.edu Quote: “Just don’t give up what you’re trying …
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Poetry: Land Ho by Kwame DawesI cannot speak the languagesspoken in that vessel,cannot read the beadspromising salvation.Read More Song In My Head: Rest by Michael Kiwanuka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edJy_2M03zg Art: From Carrie Mae Weems’ Beacon series Photo credit: carriemaeweems.net Quote: “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” – W.E.B. DuBois Recipe: Pineapple Lemonade …
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Poetry: Revery by Fenton Johnson 1.I was the starlightI was the moonlightI was the sunset,Read More Song In My Head: Tryin’ Times by Donny Hathaway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxaBpiQGWP0 Art: Mark Bradford’s Butch Queen Photo credit: albrightknox.org Quote: “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of …
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Poetry: Realization by Marilyn NelsonThree-quarter size. Full size would break the heart.She, still bare-breasted from the auction block,sits staring, perhaps realizing whatwill happen to them next. There is no child,Read More Song In My Head: Come Ye by Sweet Honey In the Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2qH44gt8xA Art: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Dustheads Photo credit: jean-michel-basquiat.org Quote: “Education …
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