BLACK MAN, How do I tell you?
Black Man,
how can I tell you,
what words do I use...?
to say,
my heart fills with pride
to see you stand tall with your child -
by your side.
Manly and strong,
You’re strong enough to be sensitive,
to get ...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd 2010 at 11:33AM
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A Lasting Gift to Medicine That Wasn’t Really a Gift
By Denise Grady
Published: February 1, 2010
Fifty years after Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in the “colored” ward at Johns Hopkins Hospital, her daughter finally got a chance to ...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd 2010 at 11:32AM
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If you're in New York, check out the Film Sugar Pathways on December 4th.
www.johannabermudezruiz.wordpress.com
SUGAR PATHWAYS by filmmaker Johanna Bermuda-Ruiz tells the riveting story of the unwilling migration by Puerto Rican families from t ...
Posted Friday, November 20th 2009 at 10:59AM
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I'm still praying for those 2, and all the other 2's. - JB 11/5/09
How did Love Forsake?
Even though, your kiss made me dizzy and often giddy,
Even as my touch you said, ‘made you weak in the knees’,
Our love was supposed to be cement block s ...
Posted Thursday, November 5th 2009 at 10:51AM
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“…I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind,
and the gracious favor of Almighty God.”
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
These words are not confined to a limited space and time,
rather they must govern every human ve ...
Posted Wednesday, October 28th 2009 at 4:07PM
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Sorry.
I just needed to feel the brush of your lips
and taste the essence of your tongue.
Selfishly, I longed to thrust my hips
toward your structured torso; so lean, so strong.
I’ve had you over and over again
in the lusty realms of my sen ...
Posted Wednesday, October 21st 2009 at 11:17AM
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“Many waters can not quench love,
neither can the floods drown it.”
Dearest Solomon,
Solomon, like every true muse, artist
your songs, your psalms, your vibrations
caress my stress, swelling back and forth over the ebbs of time.
Sitting ...
Posted Wednesday, October 21st 2009 at 11:01AM
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Theory. The theory of the expanding universe has become our befuddled story.
Together, we emerged, we ruled, we consumed all energy, all mass.
We formed the cosmos, the universe in its orderly, harmonious whole.
Internal combustion? Violent Gas ...
Posted Wednesday, October 21st 2009 at 10:51AM
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“You reap what you sow”
they lament, they chant over and over again.
I did, I tilled the soil, I chose the seeds,
poured jugs of water over fertile plain, rock, sand; all-terrain.
I walked for miles roundabout in patches of garden,
I bent ove ...
Posted Wednesday, July 29th 2009 at 10:42AM
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Voyager 1 images of 6 planets from 4 billion miles out 123k jpg; html
Link for 4 billion mile photo
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/solar_system/family_portraits.jpg
Most Astonishing, the love you have for me,
securing us in this ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 12:09PM
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