I’ve been reading Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton. It’s been an eye opening read. I grew up learning about Harriet Tubman and the role she played as a conductor of the Underground Railroad. I knew that because of her more than 300 slaves ran away from slavery and found freedom in…
Tag: History
on the promotion of amiri baraka to ancestor
the truth is i don’t know what the hell i am doing i am wholly unprepared for the life of the erudite i cannot yet be promoted to mentor least of all sage i’m still sitting here figuring shit out i pay my bills and i make sure my child is…
it was more than a dream (i testify it was)
in a world where president barack obama were literally among his first words he lies unaware of the prices that were paid he knows not the emmitts that came before him and i like it that way he believes that its all within reach and completely doable who wants to be president when you can…
mr. lindsay’s boy albert
my grandfather is still on my mind. i remember a story he told often about what it was like meeting his own father for the very first time when he was 27 years old. he was born in 1919 so when he met his father in 1946 he had already worked for nearly 20 years…
coup de coeur (or insurgence of the heart)
sitting across from him she is fascinated at the very idea that once she dreamed of being a revolutionary. and not the grassroots organizing flyer dropping kind of a revolutionary but an actual gun toting che guevara I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to…
fearfree living 