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  Some Notes on the Colors of These Changing Times: Editorial with Poem

  (poem poster art copyright by Aberjhani) Given the horrendous white-versus-black-motivated massacre in Charleston, S.C., on June 17, the jubilant rainbow celebrations that broke out following the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nation-wide on June 26, and increasing calls to cease flying the Confederate flag on government properties,…

  July 1, 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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  Rainbow-Song for The Angel of Tao: A Graphic-Art Poem by Aberjhani

  (Art panel No. 2 Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao copyright by Aberjhani.) “Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao” is not typical so far as poems posted in celebration of National Poetry Month go. The 3 stanzas of the poem are described as verses and each one has a corresponding…

  March 30, 2015
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  Selma Revisited: from Violent Racism to Reflective Compassion (part 1)

  Left to right, Producers of the Golen Globe Award-nominated film Selma: Dede Gardner, Oprah Winfrey, and director Ava DuVernay. (photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for AFI)  The movie Selma, directed and executive produced by Ava DuVernay, opened on Christmas Day 2014 and rang in the New Year 2015 with domestic…

  January 7, 2015