Author: Anita Gail Jones

Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes

  Poets in Unexpected Places pop up at the holiday market in Union Square with poems in response to police brutality, a day after the non-indictment for the killing of Eric Garner. Abena Koomson performs “Let America Be America Again” by American poet Langston Hughes, written in 1935. It was originally published in the July 1936 issue of… Continue reading Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes

Get Out ~ A Quantum Leap for Film Genre

Anita: Get Out is one small step for The Stepford Wives and a quantum leap for the film genre. A group of five of us went to see the new film Get Out yesterday —all of us people of color and none of us fans of horror films. I purposefully did not watch the trailer—they give away… Continue reading Get Out ~ A Quantum Leap for Film Genre

My Father ~ Silas Jones ~ An Inspiration

Independence Day Musings ~ My father, Silas Jones, was born in 1921 in Putney, Georgia—a widening-in-the-road near Albany. I remember one summer when I was home—most likely during my Brooklyn, New York years: 1979-1985, we drove “down home” to visit my mother’s people in Bainbridge/Camilla. We were at a cousin’s house where the TV played… Continue reading My Father ~ Silas Jones ~ An Inspiration

The Story of Microfibers

Try following this paradox of modern life ~ the very clothes we wear to exercise, practice Pilates or take a hike could be coming back to bite us in a lovely slice of tuna or salmon. Thank you to The Story of Stuff Project for continuing to lead global changemaking for a healthier planet. Watch their new film about… Continue reading The Story of Microfibers

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James Baldwin ~ A Master of Craft

“[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing…The thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought.”~ Langston Hughes Anita’s Note: Once again I am on an intense revising schedule. When I’m not writing—or performing some nettlesome business of life—I read—having… Continue reading James Baldwin ~ A Master of Craft