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  5 Ways to be Geniuses Together: Celebrating Ja Jahannes

  “Unless we learn” quote by Ja A. Jahannes (with art graphic by Postered Poetics) One self-penned definition of the word genius is: a focused intensification of individual intelligence resulting in works of exemplary creativity, visionary leadership, or uncommon spiritual depth and beauty. This definition is perhaps a fitting one to…

  July 13, 2015
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  Red Summer: Text and meaning in Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” (part 1 of 4)

  The summer of 2015 marks the 96th anniversary of the publication of Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay’s masterful poem, “If We Must Die.” This essay is presented in commemoration of that literary milestone and in remembrance of the extraordinary Red Summer of 1919 that inspired it. There were many good…

  June 4, 2015
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  Citizens of Newark Honor City and Historian Clement Alexander Price

                        Clement Alexander Price (photo by Nick Romanenko and Rutgers Magazine) The celebration held at Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, NJ, on November 14, 2014, honored the city itself as much as it did the life of historian Clement Alexander Price, who passed on November 5. “Everything he touched he…

  November 20, 2014
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  Reflections on Ode to the Good Black Boots that Served My Soul So Well (poem) by Aberjhani

  “But why exactly were these shoes so important to Vincent? Why had he carried them with him for so long, beaten and worn as they were?” – Ken Wilber, from the essay A Pair of Worn Shoes (“A Pair of Shoes” painting by Vincent Van Gogh from Southern Review.org) The story…

  October 28, 2014