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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

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The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional d...more

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The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a foss...more

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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recogni...more

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize th...more

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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their ...more

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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive for...more

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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissa...more

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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that con...more

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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails...more

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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.