A Shero for Social Justice, Poetry, Humanity… Ending Domestic and World Wars, Strife and Chasms.
American Poet and African Culturalist but Bespoke and Ambient
Literary Activist and National Dean of Poetry E. Ethelbert Miller Speaks Thoughtfully of Our Times
When we spoke last year, after you had presented on poet June Jordan at the Medgar Evers college in Brooklyn, you said something that struck me and prompted this article. You said, and I am quoting as best I remember, that African Americans are some of the most creative spirits on the planet. What…
Black Man JuJu: Interview With Tyehimba Jess
Pulitzer Prize Winner who inverts the poetry of Hip Hop and summons the Ancestors.
Pulitzer Prize Winner who inverts the poetry of Hip Hop and summons the Ancestors.
Dean of the American Game Smashes Racism Ugly in Its Mouth
Knee at the sideline or Black fist in the air, Dr. Harry Edwards underwrote a new epoch in the Spiritual War.
Knee at the sideline or Black fist in the air, Dr. Harry Edwards underwrote a new epoch in the Spiritual War.
Ishmael Reed’s Master Class ‘Black Fiction is at the Crossroads.’
Breaking brown: Continuing the tradition of Black intellectual thought.
Breaking brown: Continuing the tradition of Black intellectual thought.
Kindly Don’t Have My Child Play the Slave During the American Revolution
He is only 11 years old! Freed or otherwise, a free slave was still enslaved.
He is only 11 years old! Freed or otherwise, a free slave was still enslaved.
We Are the Greatest of All Time
Spirit of the Fighter, Soul of the Struggle Captured in Jules Arthur’s Portal Paintings.
Spirit of the Fighter, Soul of the Struggle Captured in Jules Arthur’s Portal Paintings.
Freeing the Boy Who Wants the Man to Fly
“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” ― Michael Jordan
“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” ― Michael Jordan
The Future is Always Now
Interview with Ytasha Womack, Author (and Builder) of Afrofuturism.
Interview with Ytasha Womack, Author (and Builder) of Afrofuturism.
Meeting the Great Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Last son of the Harlem Renaissance opens up about being a bestselling author and Civil Rights thinker and leader.
Last son of the Harlem Renaissance opens up about being a bestselling author and Civil Rights thinker and leader.
Iconic Photographer Chester Higgins Jr. Opens Our World through the Lens of His I
The power of his eye to interpret the spirit is singular in American photography and history.
The power of his eye to interpret the spirit is singular in American photography and history.
Resistance Jedi Knight
Sevan Bomar authored the Resistance before it ever happened.
Embed from Getty Images — There is an intergalactic war going on between opposing forces. And you don’t have to go to the cineplex to see it in December. It’s here now. It is always “here”. These forces are outside the constructs of man-made time and place. They are simultaneously within and outside the constructs…
American Bard
Patrick Howell interviews author Jeffery Renard Allen.
Patrick Howell interviews author Jeffery Renard Allen.
Lions Gate Entertainment’s Blunder is Disney’s Bounty
Why do some Hollywood studios insist systemically on racism and discrimination when inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism are more profitable?
All Blood Is Red
JiCHO Presents: All Blood is Red (part II)—an International African Arts Movement (I Aam) Tribute to Black Lives.
From Datcher Dreams to His Americus
Holiday reading for the winter, torched and charred.