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…

A universal story of freedom and determination — I want someone to do a television film or series about the great story of Henry “Box” Brown. It is not a well known story and one more than worthy of bigger treatment for the masses. Who is Henry “Box” Brown? He is an African American man, enslaved, who wanted…

The war is lost and so is the new dream of a Russian empire — If you have ever read Sun Tzu’s most famous book, The Art of War, you understand why the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has failed and will fail. If you have been watching the news or reading most news accounts, you know the details. Ukraine and its people want to…

Welcome to the sequel — The 45th President is back! He is everywhere again like in 2015 and 2016 and then for four years of political mayhem where he danced in and out of the media’s clutches as President. Some of it was him and his shady posse of ex-criminals, fake politicians, and offspring. Some…

A book for the ages — When I moved to Michigan back in 2010 for work, I began collecting used copies of Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I began doing this because I was working in East Lansing and this is the city where Malcolm X spent the early part of his life. …

The Boston Celtics get it right — Sexuality in the Workplace As everyone else, I do not know anything about the Ime Udoka episode and the Boston Celtics other than lean reporting. But if Udoka actually engaged in the purported conduct alleged, the Celtics got it right. This is their franchise history too. We know the seriousness of this issue here…