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This year I started homeschooling my ten year old son. I won’t go into the whycomes…in this post at least. The other day I took him on the first stage of what I call our Boston Underground Railroad tour. Looking at the list of houses on the site, I determined the William Ingersoll Bowditch house was the…
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Originally posted on News for the Revolution: By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley December 3, 2014 Black Agenda Report ? Ferguson signifies the end of the age of Obama. It is a very sad end.” – Cornel West “For Wilson to publicly say that he would kill Brown again is too much for…
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“We are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you’re attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man war, poverty, and tyranny and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each.” Adlai Stevenson
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Drowning in a reservoir of acute unconsciousness I searched for a lifeline, a paradigm of freedom And saw her face on a book in a window. I made it a crusade to get the funds Necessary to purchase the book And after reading the first page Something inside me said fuck being forlorn: FIGHT! And…
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Poetry for me has been like early biology lessons of the salamander. We’ve heard much lately about stem-cell research that may enable regeneration of human tissue. Such miracles have occurred in nature since the very beginning in the salamander. Salamanders, lizards, and other such creatures have the ability to regenerate limbs and other body parts.…
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holocaust victims jewish homeland at all costs killing is kosher
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Nonsense Makes Sense We tango sambo Manifesting delicious Delinquency to the tune Of tito Ditto machito & his afro-cubans Plantation palpitations Bandana fandango Somber sambo Santería celia Cruz middle passage Memorizing meringue Sherbro sho bro Talk that talk Tantalize romanticize Defecate delinquencies Until p diddy’s umbrella Is eunichized Colonial colón Original origami Paper tigers like…
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Originally posted on Marxist Marginalia: I apologize for the rather meager fare which has been on offer here of late. A post is coming soon, I promise, on Richard Wright, communism, and the blues. Until then, here’s a passage from James Baldwin’s last novel, Just Above My Head (1978), in which he addresses the subject…
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My bed is full of ashes ghosts and fingers that creep like vines. I, limbless perambulate the contours of a dream that approaches a nightmare. I am home and horizontal.
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LIVE closes the Fall 2013 season with a conversation between 2013 Library Lion Junot Díaz and the writer who most influenced him, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison.
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