I’m sure it’s illegal somewhere to do what the erudite Billy Collins does so well with the 26 letters of our alphabet. And I’m so glad he gets away with it. If a poem is a cultural artifact then Billy is a poem…
Author: Anita Gail Jones
Fruitvale Station ~ Lifts up Humanity
A story is told of a grandfather, teaching his grandson about the two wolves fighting inside each of us, all the time: the wolf of anger, greed, envy and all things bad; against the wolf of love, compassion, unity and all things good. “Which one will win?” asks the grandson. The grandfather answers, “The… Continue reading Fruitvale Station ~ Lifts up Humanity
Join the New Civil Rights Movement
MoveOn is hosting a Google Hangout: Tuesday, July 30 (tomorrow) at 8:PM ET. I’m joining NAACP’s Jotaka Eaddy, Colorlines.com’s Rinku Sen, Dream Defenders’ Ciara Taylor, 18MillionRising’s Christina Samala, and We Are Not Trayvon Martin’s Joseph Phelan in a special roundtable broadcast live online, to talk about how we can work together to grow this new… Continue reading Join the New Civil Rights Movement
JFK’s Civil Rights Speech: June 11, 1963
50 years ago last month, President Kennedy spoke boldly and eloquently from the Oval office in response to the National Guard being sent to protect African-American students at the University of Alabama. Kennedy’s words ~ “We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and as clear as the… Continue reading JFK’s Civil Rights Speech: June 11, 1963
Angela Glover Blackwell says: “Turn Outrage into action”
Angela Glover Blackwell is outraged over the Zimmerman verdict. I look to her and PolicyLink for balance and direction at times like these. So can you. Click on the the picture to go to their EquityBlog, watch the video and get your marching orders.
White Privilege
…”it’s everywhere you want to be.” Thanks to my dear friend Flora Devine for the comment below. With her permission, I simply had to graduate it from a comment to a post. Keep reading after that, I share a haunting personal story that illustrates the opposite of white privilege: Flora wrote: I heard someone on… Continue reading White Privilege
Sign this petition for Trayvon
Sign this petition for Trayvon
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the NAACP, started this petition: Justice Department: Open a Civil Rights Case Against George Zimmerman.
I signed it along with 523,000 other people in their right mind. I hope you will, too.
Trayvon
The verdict is in. Moments ago six women in Sanford, FLA found Zimmerman not guilty of the murder of Trayvon Martin. I’ve come here to write about this and find myself at a complete loss for words. I did not think that six women, most of them mothers, would find this man not guilty. And… Continue reading Trayvon
Paris ~ Part 1: Give and take
Paris is a big girl. She’s been on her on for a long time. After 2000 years of rites and passage, she has not always made the most compassionate choices where other folk are concerned—even her own folk—yet she’s still around to share her story. She grew up fast, once launched from her birthplace on… Continue reading Paris ~ Part 1: Give and take
Land Fillharmonic
Even extreme poverty cannot destroy the will of art; living in the souls of the oppressed and revealed in a myriad of ways.