Your bare knees curve like stone arches colored red-ish gold of a south west sunset. A deep warmth to the touch like sun beaten rock, comforting to the skin in cool night air. No wastes barren, you birth life in unlikely places, bending forces that burn flesh and satisfy thirst until your physical landscape heals […]
I think I’ve said this enough times to my wife that I finally share it, a little more broadly. People say stuff. Now comes the really interesting part… They do things! *gasp gasp* and those things either agree with what they said, or they don’t. Call me radical, or crazy or whatever you want, […]
Recently, I’ve been reflecting on the direction of this blog. It began mostly as a place where I could share research and findings I produced during undergraduate studies in history and sociology. I dislike the idea of an ivory tower of intellectuals who withhold knowledge for their own benefit. I also share my poetry, which […]
Harbor Mists, thick enough to see the edge of the world. Condensation drips, adhering to my beards curls And sticks to the bare branches overhead, Falling onto dead leafs. When Trees Rain.
Recently, Columbus Day passed, not on the calendar but from existence, at least in a few places around the U.S. It has been justly replaced with Indigenous Peoples Day, a celebration of those who were already on the American continent prior to Columbus’ arrival, a move that helps us rephrase and reframe how we think […]
The Beat generation revisited to the beats of oppression Materialized and distributed at a profit, The chaos paradox of democracy feared And failed in corporatocratic military complex, Neo-imperialism fading in the face of false slut shaming And racy lingerie ads Next to the saviors cross of demise, Passing Gods house fighting cigarette headaches With tobacco […]
Recently, presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders spoke at two rallies’ here in Seattle, and at each one, he asked people to remember all the activists – African Americans, women, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics – who paid a price for their activism with persecution, jail time and too often their lives. In many ways, he is […]
[Time Magazine May 11th 2015: Baltimore Riots] Introduction Mentioning the 1960’s in America evokes almost mythical imagery, enveloped in the struggle for civil rights, anti-war protests and the effort for individual self-determination. Central in these images is the black experience in America and their fight for legal, social and economic freedom. Jim Crow laws of […]
Abstract: Geographic, environmental and historical factors converge at the Island of São Tomé making it the first African slave-reliant, large scale sugar plantation colony for Portugal, as well as the principle port for the early West African slave trade to America. At the crossroads of this slave plantation colony and Portugal’s global trade routes, we […]
Today in America, universities, government officials, professional athletes, social justice organizations, concerned citizens, and whole communities are marching through the streets in protest against racial profiling and legal structures that are unresponsive to social injustices. Even those who are not engaged in direct action are engrossed in a new national dialogue about racism and inequality […]
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