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A Nation Unto Ourselves… I began listening to this teac...

  A Nation Unto Ourselves… I began listening to this teacher because his voice, the assured certainty of it, reminded me of Malcolm X. That same impersonal coolness that has passion as well as stubbornness at its core. And, like Malcolm, when I researched Bolsen, I found a history of trials and tribulations that would have finished off a lesser spirit. In fact, his life, like Malcolm’s, raises the question: is it true that spirit crushing trials, failing to defeat us, can sometimes point us to w...

“israel kills a child in Gaza every few minutes – here are the latest”

Al Tahrawi family   –Moamen Ahmad Salah   Sahar, Julia, and Hour Tayeh:   Aalia Haked al askri   Credit – July 2024 “israel kills a child in Gaza every few minutes – here are the latest” Via Adi Argov Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan telefax: ++972-(0)2-5700112 Mobile: ++972-(0)547-578703

July 26th Movement in Cuba: The Gift of Belief

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Presente!

Thank you for inviting us into the Wonder of your Spirit:  Noble, wise, indomitable, determined, passionate, and true. You have carried us safely through disasters still unfolding. Your voice both honey and rock. ~aw

Berniece Johnson Reagon, Presente!

Thank you for inviting us into the Wonder of your Spirit:  Noble, wise, indomitable, determined, passionate, and true. You have carried us safely through disasters still unfolding. Your voice both honey and rock. ~aw

Through the Sky Light:Robert “Roberto” Allen, Presente!

Through the Sky Light: Robert “Roberto” Allen, Presente! Photo by Alice Walker Sharing this article: RIP Robert L. Allen, a Black scholar in every sense of the words The author is best known for his 1989 book The Port Chicago Mutiny, about a 1944 incident which saw 256 Black sailors unjustly court-martialed and who were recently exonerated By Herb Boyd Jul 19, 2024 at 9:51 am University of California, Berkeley Robert L. Allen in 1967. News that the U.S. Navy had exonerated 256 Black sailors who ...

Percival Everett and other wonders

Percival Everett Guess What? Nigger Is Not Our Name. ©2024 by Alice Walker I am so grateful that as long as we live, apparently, humans will surprise us with their genius.  It’s true that the horrors of Life continue to abound, but somehow people manage to dream, to immerse themselves in whatever is of interest to them, to create offerings to a human tribe that, quite often, has no idea such offerings are even possible. Another oddity: when gifts of great insight and helpfulness appear, it can l...

Do Not Cut the Rose: Thank you, Efua Dorkenoo

Gambian activist Jaha Dukureh celebrates after the country’s parliament rejected the bill to end a ban on female genital mutilation. Malick Njie/Reuters See also: Warrior Marks and the Sexual Blinding of Women, a film by Pratibha Parmar, book by Alice Walker 1993. Sharing article: A victory for opponents of female genital mutilation in The Gambia July 16, 20243:20 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered By Gabrielle Emanuel 2-Minute Listen [Download] [ Audio Transcript ] When she was 2, Absa Samba ...

No Agreement; No Submission, Or: “I Will Not Bow Down…” Sweet Honey ©2024 Alice Walker

No Agreement; No Submission, Or: “I Will Not Bow Down…” Sweet Honey  ©2024 by Alice Walker My younger sisters, daughters, mothers of sons and grandsons: Yes, this is frightening. And I love you so much for being your funny, real, outrageously pissed selves. When I was eighteen I travelled to Russia (1963) because even then our government was maligning it and trying to instigate a war.  I got off the train crossing the border from Finland so I could touch the “iron curtain” we had been taught all...

If Jesus could drive a truck. Buddha, too.© 2024 by Alice Walker

If Jesus could drive a truck. Buddha, too.© 2024 by Alice Walker