Black Listopia I feel like an idiom that drips from Baldwin’s pen “that” angry Black woman negotiating sin I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO! A thing to be had Thick lips, curvaceous hips, or a fashion fad You can’t set me like diamonds Or string me like pearls Pick on my afro, then appropriate my curls I [...]
By Kathy Kremins "I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief." – C.S. Lewis We are better than this No, we are this Always have been Columbus mission schools Tulsa Race Massacre Charlottesville La Operacion children in cages smallpox pipelines voter suppression We are better than [...]
By Sarah Sheppeck "I want to hear all of you.” "Do I have to tell it in order?" "However you’d like." She takes a cigarette, lights it, hands me the pack. "The only condition is that you have to tell it all." “Okay.” I exhale a thick plume of smoke. “All right. Here goes.” • [...]
By Jennifer Shneiderman Slipping into Cadillac One Gliding on lies and half-truths Trump greets supporters waving off warnings and all that is humane. He is the clear and present danger. The SUV a mobile panic room used for political theatre could be the Secret Service Presidential seal of death. The truth is a ghost a [...]
