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
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
“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
Hail Mary, Full of Grace
©2020 by Alice Walker
Hail Mary
Full of Grace
Thank you for demonstrating
How to leave
By opening the door.
Para Votar – Di Te Amo Todos Los Días: Con Tu Boca
Say it to the Pangolin. And the Zimbabwean. Photo: National Geographic
Dígaselo al Pangolín. Y el Zimbabuense. Foto: National Geographic
To Vote –
Say I Love You Every Day:
With Your Mouth
©2020 by Alice Walker
You must say aloud
I love you
At least five times
Every day.
You will… Continue reading
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2020 – October | November | December
2021
January 3, 2021
Israeli minister of Justice instructed not to vaccinate Palestinian prisoners
including Children
— Palestinian centre for the study of prisoners states there are 140 Palestinian prisoners with Covid19. Ahmad Salah Manasra 17, in jail since he was 12 (and badly wounded), is… Continue reading
Permanezco Prendiendo Velas En La Entrada De Mi Casa Y Viendo El Viento Apagarlas
Poem of the Week
Amy M. Alvarez
Content Notice: Black death via state-sanctioned violence, grief
I keep lighting candles on my stoop and watching the wind snuff them out
I keep thinking about Breonna Taylor asleep/ between fresh sheets/ I keep thinking/ about her skin cooling after… Continue reading
American Indian Movement Activists Dancing Down a statue of Christopher Columbus, a likeness representative of cruelty and suffering so vast no words can begin to describe it. Only dance might approach if not sufficiently express the sorrow, and now the joy, that some of us – even if only in parts and pieces – survived. ~AW
Activistas del Movimiento Indígena Americano bailan junto… Continue reading
That Mauna Kea, the Mountain, is understood to demand that the people’s protest of protection for Her be rooted in Sacred Conduct, is one of the reasons I love Hawaiian activists. Respect. Honor. Cherish. Defend. Praise. Though most often without land of any kind to call our own, let us climb together, on all continents. Our people are our Sacred Mountain.~AW… Continue reading