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: Never Enough of Living by Léonie AdamsNever, my heart, is there enough of living,Since only in thee is loveliness so sweet pain;Only for thee the willows will be givingTheir quiet fringes to the dreaming river;Read More Song In My Head: Harvest Moon by Widowspeak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1yesc-IdeI Art: Caleb Gardner’s Easy Chair Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: …
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: The Trees in Riverdale Park by Karen SolieDiagonal paths quadrisect a square acrewhite as the page in February.From the soil of this basic geometryash, elm, and maple flourish like understandingsRead More Song In My Head: The Dreamer by The Tallest Man On Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7rzbFbPL1M Art: Cosmological Mandala with Mount Meru Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: …
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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