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Editorial Statement
Jul 01, 2008; ... As this issue of Black Renaissance Noire is published, we, the American people, are debating whom to cast our ballots for in the historic 2008 presidential election. "Historic" because for the first time in this nation's long, tortured, and illustrious history, an African American, Barack Obama, ...
Father, forgive me
Jul 01, 2008; ... MY FATHER is unequivocally retro 70s. He is situated between Mexico City, 1968 and the hype surrounding two turntables, spinning and back-spinning in a row house on 7th and S streets in northwest Washington, D.C. I will forever remember him in cotton teardrop shirts, like the ones he wore at ...
ADÁL Maldonado
Jul 01, 2008; ... By permission of Oxford University Press, Inc. "JL Falconi" pp. 17-18 from "Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States" edited by Oboler 5 & Gonzalez DJ (2005). Free permission. Born in Utuado, Puerto Rico, and relocated to New York City at the age of ...
aunt jemima
Jul 01, 2008; ... white folks say i remind them of home i who have been homeless all my life except for their kitchen cabinets i who have made the best of everything pancakes batter for chicken my ...
A CONVERSATION WITH Lucille Clifton
Jul 01, 2008; ... Thanks to Arleta Little, Executive Director of the Archie Civens, Sr., Foundation, who transcribed and edited this interview. Introduction to the conversation with Lucille Clifton, by Alexs Pate. IN APRIL OF THIS YEAR, LUCILLE CLIFTON PARTICIPATED IN THE fourth annual Givens ...
cream of wheat
Jul 01, 2008; ... sometimes at night we stroll the market aisles ben and jemima and me they walk in front humming this and that i lag behind trying to remove my chef's cap wondering what ever pictured me then left me ...
horse prayer
Jul 01, 2008; ... why was i born to balance this two leg on my back to carry across my snout his stocking of oat and apple why i pray to ...
raccoon prayer
Jul 01, 2008; ... oh Master Of All Who Take And Wash Then Eat lift me away at the end into evening forever into sanctified crumples and peelings curled over my ...
AT THE ELBOWS OF MY ELDERS: One Family's Journey Toward Civil Rights
Jul 01, 2008; ... SELECTION FROM Gail Milissa Grant's forthcoming memoir REPRINTED BY PERMISSION FROM At the Elbow of My Elders: One Family's Journey Toward Civil Rights, © 2008 by the Missouri History Museum, St. Louis. INTRODUCTION AS A CHILD OF THE 1950S IN ST ....
Air-Fire-Water-Earth
Jul 01, 2008; ... Someone extends asphyxia Someone premeditates the horrific bites taken by fires. Someone governs the submerged mechanism of drowning, and the exquisite conformation of skulls, and this subterranean view of man leaves us with a gray ...
San Pedro Sula
Jul 01, 2008; ... Laurels line the patio. A sky so low I touch it with my hand. Blackbirds wait on rooftops to peck a shiny eye and flap away. A golden statue rises straight as the firmament, gentle face of the unnamable. City, my ...
The Mechanical Nightmare (War Games)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Night after night while the President of the United States of America, eyes closed, lies sleeping like a log, much against his sovereign will, Adolph Hitler or the ghost of one of his doubles enters the presidential bedroom and before ...
Fable of Death
Jul 01, 2008; ... Tegucigalpa, 1966-2003 This is the wall: in its entire domain, no bridge, nor lightning flash, nor beacon on a hill. I speak of those who do not have a stone to lay their bones on, because, oh Death! what invalid can forget the drizzly ...
Yoro the Magical
Jul 01, 2008; ... Tojoaquin Reyes Tejeda, my second teacher In the sunset of his life Plutarco Muñoz, lord of earth, gallows, and knife, was silenced by the very persons who had exalted him; they even tried to stone him. By that time he had already forgotten ...
The Shadow Will Reach the Lily In Good Time
Jul 01, 2008; ... For each of them, worshipers of the First Rooster who at the beginning of the creation of the Universe perched on the horizon the very same who in cold blood planned massacres and fires we are speaking of the Sandoval Alarcons, the ...
There's Another New Orleans: March, 2002
Jul 01, 2008; ... Where the roads crawl backwards behind streets broken up in many places and children stand in doorways, staring. Their eyes look far away, and a woman stands by the street corner hollering for a dollar to take her to the shelter. At the Chinese ...
So This Is Where the Roads Merge: A Poem for Sister Agnes
Jul 01, 2008; ... So this is where the water must go-gravel, silt and all? Where the sinkhole sinks, where the ground goes underground, where love descends under the goal-keeper of the dream, where the dream must finally evolve? So this is the flooding ground, the protector now ...
A Poem Before You Die
Jul 01, 2008; ... There will be no remembering of twilight evenings from our past, no recounting of lost loves, of the fires and the flames we used to carry in our big hearts, as if these flames were in themselves made of egg shells. The burning out of the bonfires, the ...
It Is Too Late Now
Jul 01, 2008; ... I love a poem that almost sings a song just like the robin that refuses to fly away before the snow arrives with its cold, cold nights. The robin, betrayed by sunny December days, new Decembers without snow, and then comes January's snowstorm, but ...
For My Husband After So Many Years
Jul 01, 2008; ... So this is the bed. So this is the life. So this is the life of the after years or the years after. The candlelight lingers late after all these years. Someone is watching us. This journey has been long, so if there are roses bring them to me in a ...