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Tag Archives: BlackLivesMatter
Chadwick Boseman: In Memoriam – Black Panther!
Two years ago, in preparing to deliver a high school graduation commencement address at the Fedcap School in Orange, New Jersey, I researched a number of commencement addresses by pop culture characters and personalities. During my research, I came across … Continue reading
Posted in being a teenager, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, ezwwaters, Lest We Forget, raising black boys, Urban Impact
Tagged ##BlackSuperHeroesMatter, #WakandaForever, Black Lightning, Black Panther, BlackLivesMatter, Bruce Lee, Chadwick Boseman, Fedcap School, Howard University, Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Panthers, Superfly, Superheroes, Superman
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“Final” Touches on The Black Blood of Poetry
Early this morning I put the “final” touches on my title poem, “The Black Blood of Poetry.” I wasn’t going to post it, but it is timely, and I’d rather not wait until the collection is published to put this … Continue reading
Posted in Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, crime, James Baldwin, Lest We Forget, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Murder, Nation of Islam, Poetry, Politics, race, raising black boys, Revolution, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, Sonny's Blues, Streets of Rage
Tagged "I can't breathe!", #AllLivesMatter, BlackLivesMatter, Blood in My Eye, Emmett Till, Fred Hampton, George Floyd, James Baldwin , James Chaney, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Ossie Davis, Soledad Brother, The Black Blood of Poetry
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The Black Blood of Poetry
Over the weekend I got some good work done on my title poem, “The Black Blood of Poetry.” A little more than twenty years ago, a poet-friend, Rachel Wetzsteon, who committed suicide in December 2009, perhaps because she felt too … Continue reading
Posted in being a teenager, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, crime, ezwwaters, Lest We Forget, Poetry, race, raising black boys, Relationships, Streets of Rage
Tagged "If We Must Die", Black Summer, BlackLivesMatter, Claude McKay, Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Pantoum, Rachel Wetzsteon, Sonnet, suicide of Rachel Wetzsteon, The Black Blood of Poetry, The Black Feminine Mystique, Villanelle
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On this day in American History – July 5, 1852 — Frederick Douglass gives his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
One hundred and sixty-eight years ago today Frederick Douglass gave his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Douglass was born into slavery in 1818, the product of a white male raping a Black woman. White … Continue reading
Posted in Black patriotism, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Lest We Forget, Patriotism, Politics, race, Slavery
Tagged "paradox of the positive", #FrederickDouglassLifeMatters, BlackLivesMatter, Christiaen van Couwenberg, D. Waymer, Frederick Douglass, R.L. Heath, Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, The Rape of a Negro Girl, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July
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A Bibliography of Police Misconduct for Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats
As I have indicated elsewhere, when working on my collection of poetry about police misconduct, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, I drew on news reports and headlines. While doing a little Spring cleaning, I came across the original manuscript … Continue reading
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Tagged "A Bit of Justice", "Black undercover cop is shot; a case of possibble 'friendly fire'", "City Hall rally rebukes Workfare, "Don't let it happen again", "Los Angeles Officer Is Held in Drug Theft in Unusual Graft Case", "Neighbors call shooting unjust", "No Way Out", "Police brutaliy protesters rally against 'Stolen Lives'", "Police kill suspect in domestic dispute", "Real reform can stop police brutality", "Settlement of $3 Million in Fatal Choking by Officer", "The War at Home", BlackLivesMatter, Charles Brooks, Daniel Wise, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Ed Morales, Gore Vidal, Herb Boyd, John Milgrim, Margaret Sena-Stahl, Michael Randall, New York Amsterdam News, Peter Richmond, police brutality, Suspect shot by cop still in ICU"
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The Slaughter of the Innocents
In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, I have been rereading some of my poems in my collection about police misconduct, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats. I am even more disturbed now than when in 1995 I … Continue reading
Posted in being a teenager, crime, Growing Up, Justice Chronicles, juveniles, Lest We Forget, Murder, NYPD, police involved shooting, police-involved killing, race, raising black boys, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, Streets of Rage
Tagged BlackLivesMatter, cops and robbers, police killing, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, The Slaughter of the Innocents, toy guns
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The South Won the War of Northern Aggression?
Imagine a visitor from another planet, say Mars, is touring the Southern states and is in modern day Virginia. The Martian makes its way to Jamestown, which he finds both interesting, and puzzling. It has familiarized itself with 200 years … Continue reading
The Black Blood of Poetry
I am working on my fourth collection of poetry, entitled “The Black Blood of Poetry.” I first came across that phrase in the works of an Eastern European poet, whom I can’t remember, but I remember the phrase because it … Continue reading
Posted in Lest We Forget, police involved shooting, police-involved killing, race, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, Streets of Rage, Urban Impact
Tagged "If We Must Die", American history, BlackLivesMatter, Claude McKay, George Floyd, Hero worship, heroes, PEN American Center, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, The Black Blood of Poetry, Vision Zero
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On this day in American history, August 11, 2017 — White Nationalists Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia
On the evening of Friday, August 11, 2017, an assembly of more than 200 members of white supremacist, alt-right, neo-Nazi, and pro-Confederate groups from throughout the country converged on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, for a torch-lit march … Continue reading
Posted in Lest We Forget, Uncategorized
Tagged "Blood and soil!", "Unite the Right", "White lives matter!", "You will not replace us!", BlackLivesMatter, Charlottesville VA, Emancipation Park, Heather Heyer, James Alex Fields Jr, Racial Justice Initiative, Robert E. Lee, White nationalists
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Prison Walls v. Love — Review of “Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife,” by Claudette Spencer-Nurse
Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife, by Claudette Spencer-Nurse, is a love story. It is an improbable love story. It is a love story that has defied the odds. It is a love story for the ages. It is a … Continue reading
Posted in Amadou Diallo, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, crime, Family, Justice Chronicles, Life Sentences, Parole, parole board, police involved shooting, police-involved killing, race, Reentry, Relationships, remorse
Tagged Attica, Attica Correctional Facility, Beauty and the Beast, BlackLivesMatter, Claudette Spencer Nurse, Coalition for Parole Restoration (CPR), CPR, divorce, Elmira, Elmira Correctional Facility, Elmira Reformatory, Ernest Nurse, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Legal Aid Society of New York, life sentence, love, love at first sight, Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife, prison marriage, Prisoners' Rights Project, Richard Langone, Santiago v. Miles, Temple Law School
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