Leonard Cohen Democracy is coming to USA
Leonard Cohen has already left us. But what a wonderful elder he was, and through his poetry, remains. Covid-19 is said to specialize in sending elders along; some of us will no doubt be ok with having to go. And for the rest of us: Well, good luck. I have been listening to Leonard Cohen because… Continue reading
The Black Enterprise Celebration of Women of Power, 2019
I am standing between my tall beautiful niece, Ti Walker, and my shorter beautiful publicist Yona Deshommes at the recent Women of Power Legacy Gathering in Las Vegas. It was wonderful! Though I found the tiny bit I saw of Las Vegas somewhat alarming, but in not too scary a way. It is so… Continue reading
An Evening with Alice Walker
Thu, May 25 from 7:30 – 9:30pm EDT Arts & Entertainment
Celebrate our exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 with acclaimed poet, novelist, activist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker in this intimate lecture inspired by her life’s work and the exhibition. Walker won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983… Continue reading
November 22, bless Kennedy, 2016
Bob Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall, sung by the Staple Singers
THE PRIZE IS POETRY
POETRY IS THE PRIZE
IT NEEDS NO OTHER.
Por favor, lea Enemigos en La Puerta
September 2016
I spent all day last Saturday from ten o’clock in the morning to after ten o’clock at night (with a break for lunch, stretches, walks and a nap in my car) listening to a presentation by David Icke who is traveling the planet with his Phantom Self, World Wake Up Tour. He was extraordinary, as… Continue reading
Never Give Up: Even when the way of Peace is sabotaged or difficult to read….
Júntense and To the Po’lice|A la Policía
Alice Walker – Gather
Gather
©2014 by Alice Walker
for Carl Dix and Cornel West
It is still hard to believe
that millions of us saw Eric Garner die.
He died with what looked like a half dozen
heavily clad
policemen
standing on his body, twisting and crushing
him
especially his… Continue reading
Alice Walker – Gather
Gather
©2014 by Alice Walker
for Carl Dix and Cornel West
It is still hard to believe
that millions of us saw Eric Garner die.
He died with what looked like a half dozen
heavily clad
policemen
standing on his body, twisting and crushing
him
especially his head
and neck.
He was a big man, too. They must… Continue reading
Eyewitness: Ferguson’s heroic resistance
By Gloria La Riva
Article source: Liberation
Photos: Gloria La Riva
To hear the news reports or listen to Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri yesterday, you’d think the protesters of Ferguson were bent on looting and destruction, and that a midnight curfew and police were needed to protect the people.
But last night at 12:30 a.m., the… Continue reading
A Grievous Wrong Has Been Done To 5 Of Our Cuban Brothers: Such Good Men Are Hard To Find
©2014 by Alice Walker
It was an odd sensation in London recently to be part of an International Inquiry into the case of the Cuban (or the Miami) Five. (Two have recently, after serving 15 year sentences, been released). Since their arrest I… Continue reading