Alice Walker's Blog, page 59

Meridian’s granddaughter. Hello, Beloved. Protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge

Meridian’s granddaughter. Hello, Beloved. Is there another way to think about this? Let us find it, quickly, together. If we don’t find it, we risk losing the friends we’ve made,the friends we love, after over half a century of work. We risk losing all the children’s trust in our ability to find a way we read more »

7/26 Oakland Forum-Palestinian Workers, Human Rights, Labor and Zionism July 26 Oakland

PLEASE POST WIDELY 7/26 Oakland Forum-Palestinian Workers, Human Rights, Labor and Zionism July 26 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM (Free) Uptown Body and Fender – 401 26th St., Oakland Palestinian workers are under attack and they and their families face apartheid conditions. At the same time, legal efforts are being made to prevent an international boycott of read more »

Jesse Williams’ BET Awards Speech

Jesse Williams’ BET Awards Speech Here is part of the problem right up front: we have to endure a MacDonald’s add before Jesse Williams’ speech. Surely there is a better way to honor our people than by encouraging them to believe such a corporation cares about what they eat, unless it makes money for them. read more »

In these times of woe, trust in what you love that loves you back

In these times of woe, trust in what you love that loves you back 2016 by Alice Walker And though I’ve been there only once, for such a brief visit (!) I have a warm place in my heart for Brazil. It is its people, first and last, who seem to me different in some read more »

A thoughtful piece on our dilemma – The chaos of a Hillary Clinton Presidency

A thoughtful piece on our dilemma. The chaos of a Hillary Clinton Presidency: Corporate dominion and a building rebellion I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical……It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of read more »

Keeping Up With Two People I Love: Miko and Nurit, An Israeli General’s Offspring

In this post, Miko Peled, author of The General’s Son, Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, laments the death of Muhammed Ali and wishes he had stayed a while longer with us. I feel the peace that comes when a person who has given his or her all in the cause of what is right read more »

People, Keep On Thinking…

SANDERS WANTS TO DEBATE REAL ISSUES BY MANUEL E. YEPE http://manuelyepe.wordpress.com/ A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. Another novelty introduced by the campaign of Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in his bid to win voters for his candidacy is the complaint made about the sad role of candidates and the media interested read more »

Loving Oakland

Loving Oakland Copyright 2016 by Alice Walker If gentrifiers do not despoil it which means getting rid of poor and black and people of color people Oakland can be what it has been for a long time: an urban Paradise. It is a place where the young blonde woman crossing the street in front read more »

The Long Road Home Poem for Muhammad Ali

The Long Road Home 2016 by Alice Walker I am beginning to comprehend the mystery of the gift of suffering. It is true as some have said that it is a crucible in which the gold of one’s spirit is rendered and shines. Ali, you represent all of us who stand the test of read more »

Muhammad Ali

Feb 20, 2011 – Uploaded by kaotikkalm “My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the … One of the few athletes who loved us more than we loved him. -Mungu Sanchez. Thank you, son.