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The Answer Is Yes. Joe Biden and a Different Weather

The Answer Is Yes. Joe Biden and a Different Weather © 2021 by Alice Walker When I was a child my parents were determined not to raise racists. The whole of black southern culture was with them.  Racism was recognized as a deformity of spirit and soul, as well as a passion that roused in read more »

There Are Meat People ©2021 by Alice Walker

Hay Personas De Carne   There Are Meat People  ©2021 by Alice Walker There are meat people, who seem to be only exactly what you see: a body; and there are others who inhabit a body but that is not nearly the end of it. These beings are often noticeably different and we look on read more »

Ma Rainey Was An Outlaw

Ma Rainey was an outlaw. Under her mask of makeup and wanton dress, this is how she is played, by Viola Davis, in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.  A double-entendre if ever there was one. Lucky for me, I watched Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom the same week I viewed Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, read more »

Georgia, Georgia

Georgia, Georgia   My friend, the wise African novelist, Ayi Kwei Armah, wrote a novel titled The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born. But here they are.  In Georgia.  A state endearing enough and brave enough to have its own song. Vote.  If the lines are super long, hum.  Armah also wrote another novel called read more »

In Georgia: Rock the Runoff, Vote!

DECEMBER 2020   My friend, the wise African novelist, Ayi Kwei Armah, wrote a novel titled The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born. But here they are.  In Georgia.  A state endearing enough and brave enough to have its own song. Vote.  If the lines are super long, hum.  Armah also wrote another novel called read more »

“I may not get there with you.” Voting For Those Who Could Not. Abrams, Warnock, Ossoff

“I may not get there with you.”* Voting for Those Who Could Not: Standing With Those Who Know For Stacy Abrams, Raphael Warnock, and Jon Ossoff ©2020 by Alice Walker The Promised Land Is the sound From the Mountain Top Of all our ancestors Cheering us on. If it is a place, it is made both read more »

Voting For Those Who Could Not. Abrams, Warnock, Ossoff

Voting for Those Who Could Not: Standing With Those Who Know For Stacy Abrams, Raphael Warnock, and Jon Ossoff ©2020 by Alice Walker The Promised Land Is the sound From the Mountain Top Of all our ancestors Cheering us on. If it is a place, it is made both of  stubbornness and soul. A destination read more

Trudell Movie – I met John Trudell after he had died.

Conocí a John Trudell después que había muerto Watch on Amazon Prime   I met John Trudell after he had died.That was how he described himself at that time. His family had been killed; his beloved wife, Tina, had been pregnant.  He was away in Washington D.C., at the time, trying to make the US government honor read more

Dedicated, with love, to all seven of my compañeros

Alice Walkers Garden  ~  El Jardín Alice Walker   Dedicated, with love, to all seven of us: Alice, Amanda, Manuel, Joan, Rebecca, Efrain and Laura. Seven, the number that is sacred.  Seven, the number that gets it done. Transformation. Since 2008.*** ~AW_   Dedicado con amor a nosotros siete:Alice, Amanda. Manuel, Joan,  Rebecca, Efrain y read more »

Thanksgiving Between the World and Me

Día de Acción de Gracias. NOVEMBER Thanksgiving. Between the World and Me brings to mind a line from a Nikki Giovanni poem:  Black love is black wealth. Love runs throughout this beautiful film based on Ta-Nahisi Coates important book; as well as a welcome sharing of masculine emotion. Everyones offering is moving, but Oprah Winfrey read more