Storytelling for Women and Multicultural Communities
It’s still April and #NationalPoetryMonth! For hungry, quarantined readers who are stuck at home sheltering from #COVID19, it’s time to look deeper into your kitchen. That’s where you will find food poems by top African-American and Caribbean writers who can satisfy your cravings. Food is their metaphor and main ingredient. “I think poems return us Read More
Honor the memories. Honor the people who were enslaved here. Honor the people who built Brooklyn. 'Brooklyn Slavery #400years' (Project 1619Brooklyn) aims to center New York's dark secret. We invite everyone to come to our table for community reconciliation, truthtelling, and empathy. Let's honor and express radical equality at this moment in history! Invitation: Please Read More
Tempy's songs were sacred. As we draw closer to the season of Easter I think of Madame Tempy Smith, my paternal grandmother, who became a religious person during her later years. I wish I met her during her younger years when she worked on our family's dairy farm and was said to like blues Read More
#JimCrowed is when Black people are exploited by old, racist Jim Crow laws today. If you are Black and your land was stolen, you were #JimCrowed. If you are Black and your right to the truth is denied, you’ve been #JimCrowed. In honor of Black History Month, this special edition looks at an instance of Read More
Having a clean slate is the beauty of a New Year. The slate has been wiped clean of last year’s junk. A clean, new day has dawned. I spent the first day of the New Year immersed in art at a friend’s housewarming party in Brooklyn. The bright sky made me reflect. I used to Read More