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The Chance To Change
today two Black girls will call the white house home
and a Black woman has risen the first lady
and tonight will sleep next to her Black husband
in the master bedroom in the white house.
she will wake to plan the future
of all...
Yes We Can And Sometimes We Won't
Posted January 2, 2009 | 03:34 PM (EST)
The winter is now our reality. The long commute, the grey slush and trudge through unplowed streets. The digging out of cars with ice picks, spaces claimed with lawn chairs like flags on the moon. Forty-five minutes on a two-story L platform, as the wind whips and the heating lamp...
The World Keeps Swinging: Labor and Lessons of Zambrano's No-No
Posted September 22, 2008 | 02:32 PM (EST)
The night after Hurricane Ike, the Cubs/Astros game moved to Milwaukee. Panels blown off the dome roof in Houston. Carlos Zambrano, the hotheaded 27-year-old Venezuelan, at times genius Cubs pitcher, was on the mound. After the Cubs lost in the playoffs last season, I saw Zambrano the next day driving...
Prayer for the First Day of Chicago Public School
Posted August 29, 2008 | 08:14 PM (EST)
May the twenty-seven students who lost their lives last academic year eat their grandmother's cooking in the after life, go to prom in the next world, their lives and deaths not be forgotten in vain.
May the bullets intended for the chests of children this year veer into Lake...
Poet of the People
Posted August 18, 2008 | 02:41 PM (EST)
Poet of the People
there's gonna be a lot of slow signin and flower bringin
Notorious BIG
The Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish died last week in a Texas hospital of complications from open-heart surgery. There are several tributes and obituaries running on line...
After a three-night stay in Moscow, the Obamas touched down in Rome on Wednesday so Papa President...
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UPDATE: Paris Jackson also spoke. Watch her moving...
I was sorry to watch, live on CNN, Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and...
The following post...
It was with interest that I read Dr. Soram Khalsa's post on The Huffington Post...
Yesterday evening, Greg Sargent reported on The Plum Line that one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons...
OH NOES! What happened on Fox and Friends today, people?
Hermione herself, Emma Watson, charmed David Letterman and...
As our own Jason Linkins pointed out, Letterman is one of the few comedians...
I'm liveblogging the latest Iran election fallout. Email me with any news or thoughts, or follow me...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name,...
It's summer, the time for weddings! A few of my friends are getting married this summer and fall, so lately...
SYDNEY — Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets...
I get many letters like this from readers...
Posted January 20, 2009 | 10:36 AM (EST)