There are millions and we are all different — Roll Call — Reginald Dwayne Betts. Martin Espada. Monica Youn. Edgar Lee Masters. Lawrence Joseph. J.P. Howard. The list is long. Millions worldwide. Poets who are also lawyers. Lawyers who are also poets. It feels like it is not a fit but it is for me. Always fit. For many, like Evie Shockley…

My favorite guided spiritual meditation — Many nights, I listen to guided meditations to fall asleep. It is how I am wired. A soft voice to put me in the present and to focus on nothing at all but the immediate. It is how to live. No worries about tomorrow, yesterday, or some bill to pay…

White Supremacists, Of Course. — “Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.” — Derrick Bell Way back in 1995, Derrick Bell, one of the key players in the Critical Race Theory movement, wrote about the attacks on the movement from many different ideological spectrums. This is back when CRT…

Let us fight for the truth — “The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.” — James Baldwin If James Baldwin were alive today, I am sure he would be quite eloquent…

Hello Writers, Readers… — Hapana, kwa kweli nadhani ni mpango wa Ponzi. Lakini nimepata pesa hapa. Nina hakika imedhamiriwa kuwa na wengi walipe wachache kama biashara yoyote iliyopotoka ya kibepari. Lakini napenda kuandika, kwa hivyo nitaandika hapa kwa muda mrefu zaidi. Ni aibu kwamba ni mengi ya mpango wa ponzi. Kulikuwa na uwezekano hapa…

You are still the best, Sista — After reading Rod Faulkner’s nice essay on your response to the Oscar snub, (see below) Angela Bassett Owes You Nothing The policing of Angela Bassett’s reaction to her Oscar loss is very telling — and par the course in Americarodfaulkner.medium.com I wrote the following response about you not winning an Oscar for your role in Wakanda Forever — She got a right to be hostile, her people are being persecuted….

The best teams I have seen play this year by conference — It’s Madness time. In my bracket, I picked UCLA to play Arizona in the Final. A rematch of the Pac-12 Championship which Arizona won by two points. My other two teams are Marquette and Houston. It is never a good feeling doing the brackets. It is a crap shoot. But…