and i wonder where jacob’s people were from before the great migration carried them north maybe they from down round cane river like my people blake is a family name for me i am but one black man removed from being bridgette bianca blake that man a young bull who married baby doll a blake …
In March, as the gradual dawning of the extent to which we needed to shelter ourselves from the spread of CORONAVIRUS was hitting full force, cinemas, theaters, and all of Broadway shut down with optimistic prognoses of reopening by mid-April. Especially in response to the latter, I remember being shocked – even though I am …
A site specific performance cut short by the pandemic makes like phoenix, a dancer/poet downtown and consideration of the first US slave rebellion are among new streams, plus more SoCal dance this week. New This Week Changed a bit since March Originally scheduled to run through the month of March, Chris Emile’s AMEND was suspended …
I’ve spent years puzzling out how white American Christianity soured, and long before President Donald Trump came on the scene. Christianity’s blend of God, guns, racial bias and aversion of the “other” is stunning — whether that be directed against Blacks, immigrants or the LGBTQ community. Not all Christians? Certainly, but plenty of white Christian …
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Oliver Stone wrote an autobiography titled Chasing the Light, chronicling his personal and professional life up to 1987, when he turned 40 and won a Golden Globe then an Oscar as best director for Platoon, a movie that he wrote about his own experience in Vietnam as a 20-year-old soldier in 1967 and 1968. When …
Some things just take on a life of their own. What started as a one-time romp for Mother’s Day was so successful, Invertigo Dance Theatre has extended its Digital Dance Care Packages in response to inquiries for something similar for graduations, birthdays or just an expression of caring in the isolated quarantine of the pandemic. The …
Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic that is both viral and political, it is a resource for strength and creativity, friendship and beauty, …
Anarchy My neighbor’s mother was an anarchist I was told who loved to throw Apples through a tire hung from a rope In order to refine her aim when The time came to place the Molotov Cocktail exactly through the open Window of the limousine. This kind of sweet preparation For a horrible end …
Have you ever walked into a cigar store and you just can’t choose the perfect brand or type of cigar that is perfect for you? If you have, then you’re surely not the only one frustrated with this kind of experience. To the newbie or the average joe, trying your luck in picking out the …
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