Thanks Charina Nadura of Bill Moyers for bringing artist/activist Molly Crabapple’s video to my inbox. Nikky Finney says her responsibility as a poet, an artist is not to look away. We all have that responsibility as humans sharing this planet. It is devastatingly hard. Molly Crabapple did an astounding job using animation to depict the story… Continue reading Evoking His Name ~ Michael Brown: A Son of Ferguson, Missouri
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Growing up on Hazard Drive
Our house was #325 Hazard Drive, one door down from Hazard Laboratory School in Albany, Georgia. During the late 50s and into the 60s when I was growing up there, Hazard Drive was a dichotomous slice of black life, one of the east side communities closest to the Flint River. On the north end of… Continue reading Growing up on Hazard Drive