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Yoko Ono: A Bird of Paradise Among Roses

El Sol Es Real. Yoko Ono: Un Ave Del Paraíso Entre Rosas Yoko Ono: A Bird of Paradise Among Roses Yoko: A Biography by David Sheff is a medicine and a gift. Her face on the cover of his book, for instance, where she is not wearing sunglasses. I had never seen her eyes. They are warm, playful, spirited. I saw what John and Sean saw: a loving soul with backbone and a sense of humor. My own experience of Yoko, a sister Aquarian, born on February 18th, which is also Toni Morrison’s birthday, was of ...

Ibrahim Traore’s Speech to African Christians

Discurso de Ibrahim Traoré a Los Cristianos Africanos Love is the Gold (Rare Earth) Of Spirit. ~aw I weep often and I don’t care that others might not.  Tears happen for a reason.  They are a sign that our spirit has not been deadened, has not died, completely.  Listening to this son of ours, how can we not weep for recognition of the dream? That the light would dawn and we would be awake and encouraged by our journey of struggle and prayer, to see it.  There is always another whole distance to ...

The Son Also Rises: Ibrahim Traore in Russia

Truth is medicine. ~aw

The Son Also Rises: Abrahim Traore in Russia

Truth is medicine. ~aw

Colored Women Sittin’ On High

Mujeres De Color Sentadas En Alto Colored  Women  Sittin’  On  High The original Crown was a black woman’s hair. Imagine lying there, as an infant, looking up at it. This thought came to mind this morning after a visit from the great violinist, Melanie R. Hill.  She gave a concert for me and my friends under a palapa at my house, Casa Madre, in Mexico. An African Virgin de Guadalupe painted on the wall just behind her. The painter, Alvaro Chavarin, who did it years ago when I was learning to pai...

Cultivating Resistance To An Invasion From Our Past

Cultivando La Resistencia A Una Invasión De Nuestro Pasado Cultivating Resistance To An Invasion From Our Past As an American Southerner of color, it is truly horrifying to imagine these white South Africans coming to resettle in America.  Or would be, if I did not understand there is, apparently, a part of the white American psyche, and the white South African one, that revels in endless conflict between and among the so-called races.  As if there are more than one.  The illusion of white supre...

History is Dangerous – Teach It.

From: ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT TEACHING PEOPLE’S HISTORY News – Reprint Teachers Defy Fascism: Teach the Truth April 14, 2025 Despite the relentless political attacks on antiracist education, traffic to the Zinn Education Project website continues to grow — a clear indication that educators and communities remain deeply committed to teaching the truth. In the first quarter of 2025, we saw increases across every major metric compared to the same period in 2024: total page views, total visitors, new...

Killing It, Or: The Devil Stole the Music

MATÁNDOLA O EL DIABLO SE ROBÓ LA MUSICA y EL DIABLO SE ROBÓ LA MÚSICA Por Alice Walker 2023  Whitney Webb:  Woman’s intuition backed by woman’s courage and fierce intelligence. ~ aw I believe it may be true that the Universe naturally creates a Whitney Webb when one is desperately needed.  So many of us have been mystified at how the sweetness of black music in America seemed to vanish.  And how many young black men and women began filling the newly constructed prisons. Was there a connection?  ...

Killing It

Whitney Webb:  Woman’s intuition backed by woman’s courage and fierce intelligence. ~ aw I believe it may be true that the Universe naturally creates a Whitney Webb when one is desperately needed.  So many of us have been mystified at how the sweetness of black music seemed to vanish.  And how many young black men and women began filling the newly constructed prisons. Becoming enlightened about this part of our journey in the United States has to invite a sigh of despair.  All of it, our struggl...

China in Africa: Believing Our Eyes

  Visiting China in the early Eighties, the people I saw, especially the women, seemed to be using every ounce of their strength; building a new society.  I worried about them. They looked exhausted.  Now their country is probably the most powerful in the world.  I marvel at this.  It seems nothing short of amazing.  Impossible. There were many, millions, who didn’t make it!  And so many, like our own Agnes Smedley, who believed the revolution would triumph and that one day there would be no ill...