by Ngoze Akingbesote I thought I saw her face today in the sparkle of the morning sun. And then I heard the angel say, “Her work on earth is done.” I thought I heard her voice today then laugh her hearty laugh. And then I heard the angel say, “There’s peace little one at last.”[…]
by Ngozi Akingbesote Life, so lovely. Life, so beutiful. Life, so important. Yet life so undervalued. It has been filled by the curses of reality— Condemnation, foolish societal values and conformity. Death, so painful. Death, so sad. Death, so unforgiving. Yet death so peaceful. For how many people do you know in death worries about[…]
by Jalen Russell He was just a young guy, Some would call him adventurous He was on his way to school He looked dangerous. See, he was in school to become a lawyer, And he was great at community leading He was a dreamer like Martin They said he was resisting. Resisting the chains forged[…]
By Logan Dandridge “Build a fort/ Pay for soup/ Set that on fire. – Jean-Michel Basquiat “God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time” – Slave hymn A burnt, sweat-stained Mookie (Spike Lee) walks across the street of his Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, moisture spilling from his brow like a faucet.[…]
there is a loneliness in this world so great a chill so heavy, sticky running down the cleft of my lips to seal them shut to seal me shut there is a loneliness there is a loneliness in this world so great that I have felt it in the dead breath of a boy that[…]