Pre-panther
The excitement generated by the release of the Marvel Comics-based movie, Black Panther, brings to mind the man whose work of science fiction became the first by a black writer to make its initial […]
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HOW THINGS LOOK FROM DOWN HERE: One View From Among the Peons, Peasants, Plebeians, and Hoi Polloi
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Thursday,February 1, 2018
Shall I…
(I often am at a lost as to what I will write each month, not knowing what it will be until I come up with it. No doubt, that would have been the case again […]
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Word
“I know words, I have the best words.” Then-candidate Donald Trump, December 30, 2015, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina 2017 ended with a plethora of news programs about our first year with Donald Trump […]
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A Voice
Yesterday, while walking across UDC’s Dennard Plaza to get to a writing class in the College of Arts and Sciences building, I stopped to answer a call from my sister, a retired school teacher. […]
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War
Of course, we know some events begin beyond our immediate sight: the explosion of a star in a distant galaxy, the mutation of a gene sequence, whatever is happening right behind you right now. […]
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Same-old
It was five years ago today that I began to post thoughts on this website, so it is fitting to consider the power of words and the ideas they express. What comes to mind […]
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Men on Horses
We discovered a dead sparrow, my sister, brother, and I. We were four, five and six at the time, playing outside one day. I, being the oldest of that trio, decided we should bury it. […]
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20 20 20
Hey, it’s Summer, so I’m taking a break this month. Instead of sounding off on some subject, I’m just going to be lazy and post an exercise from this past Winter when an assignment required […]
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Railing at the Post
I. For years, I have been spoiled rotten by a man I’ve never known, a man who has made certain there is a newspaper on my porch every morning, usually right at the door. Now […]
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“Who’s Afraid…?”
A headline from the Sunday, May 21, 2017 New York Times caught my attention. It was nothing momentous, nothing of concern on the national or international stage – although it did concern a stage. This […]
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