Friday, December 2, 2016

Baldwin in the age of idiocy

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I am a writer. I am a student of literature. Criticism. Essay. Beautiful words stitched together for the enlightenment and enjoyment of the ...
Friday, August 26, 2016

The ghosts of two cities

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I don't want to be hyperbolic and use death as symbolism, but being a full-time caregiver for a parent suffering from dementia is deat...
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Thursday, July 7, 2016

Blood, Death and Blackness

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Blood, Death and Blackness I see all around me Gory phantasms that can't be real Dead eyes, open mouths Wounded bodies in pain Bla...
Friday, March 25, 2016

The fear of everything

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When I was a small child, probably 7 or 8 or so I would love to go to Zayre's Department store with my mother. Zayre's was a gene...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

The Mask of the Yellow Hair

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With the Iowa caucuses just a few days away we are in full-fledged presidential election season. I've been noticing a lot of my Facebo...
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Friday, November 20, 2015

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe freedom of the press

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So CNN suspends a reporter for correctly tweeting out that by passing a bill that would refuse to allow Syrian and Iraqi refugees into th...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Bert Williams: America's first Black superstar in blackface

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Bert Williams 1874-1922 "I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I ...