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¿Por qué le ha llevado tanto tiempo al presidente Biden a actuar respecto a Cuba?
Why has President Biden taken so long to act on Cuba? Write to Congress to urge the administration to reverse Trump’s disastrous policy toward our neighbors.
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President Biden has been in office for almost a month and yet… Continue reading
With your great skill, and compassion: Thank you for helping us bear this look in our eyes. ~aw
Con su gran habilidad y compasión: Gracias por ayudarnos a tener esta mirada en nuestros ojos. ~ aw
P.S. Tune in to the vibration of all of us reading Cicely’s book: Just As I Am, at the same time! This life connects itself, no matter what forces… Continue reading
La Respuesta Es Sí. Joe Biden Y Un Clima Diferente
The Answer Is Yes. Joe Biden and a Different Weather
© 2021 by Alice Walker
When I was a child my parents were determined not to raise racists. The whole of black southern culture was with them. Racism was recognized as a deformity of spirit and soul, as well as a passion that roused in… Continue reading
There Are Meat People ©2021 by Alice Walker
There are meat people, who seem to be only exactly what you see: a body; and there are others who inhabit a body but that is not nearly the end of it. These beings are often noticeably different and we look on them in wonder. As in: I wonder what made this… Continue reading
Ma Rainey was an outlaw. Under her mask of makeup and wanton dress, this is how she is played, by Viola Davis, in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. A double-entendre if ever there was one. Lucky for me, I watched Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom the same week I viewed Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When… Continue reading
Georgia, Georgia
My friend, the wise African novelist, Ayi Kwei Armah, wrote a novel titled The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born. But here they are. In Georgia. A state endearing enough and brave enough to have its own song. Vote. If the lines are super long, hum. Armah also wrote another novel called Two Thousand Seasons… Continue reading
“I may not get there with you.”* Voting for Those Who Could Not: Standing With Those Who Know
For Stacy Abrams, Raphael Warnock, and Jon Ossoff
©2020 by Alice Walker
The Promised Land
Is the sound
From the Mountain Top
Of all our ancestors
Cheering us on.
If it is a place,
it is made
both of stubbornness
and soul.
A destination
That always… Continue reading
Conocí a John Trudell después que había muerto
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I met John Trudell after he had died.That was how he described himself at that time. His family had been killed; his beloved wife, Tina, had been pregnant. He was away in Washington D.C., at the time, trying to make the US government honor a treaty, which, as far as I know, it never… Continue reading
Alice Walkers Garden ~ El Jardín Alice Walker
Dedicated, with love, to all seven of us:
Alice, Amanda, Manuel, Joan,
Rebecca, Efrain and Laura.
Seven, the number that is sacred.
Seven, the number that gets it done.
Transformation. Since 2008.*** ~AW_
Dedicado con amor a nosotros siete:
Alice, Amanda. Manuel, Joan,
Rebecca, Efrain y Laura.
Siete, el número que es… Continue reading
NOVEMBER
Thanksgiving.
Between the World and Me brings to mind a line from a Nikki Giovanni poem: Black love is black wealth. Love runs throughout this beautiful film based on Ta-Nahisi Coates’ important book; as well as a welcome sharing of masculine emotion. Everyone’s offering is moving, but Oprah Winfrey gives voice to a special dimension of conscious… Continue reading