#amreading gonzomike crimereads.com/city-of-poe-ba…

I think we all knew when she blocked that shot with one shoe in her hand. This beautiful sister is 👑. Strong, gorgeous, and unstoppable.💐🏀

One parent could get my poetry banned from classrooms. And yet one country can't ban assault rifles from massacring them.

So much racism on the high seas right now.... classism, too.

The Montgomery Dock brawl was a long-overdue act of resistance against the city's centuries-old commitment to anti-Blackness. truthout.org/articles/montg…

"The past is always present." I am grateful to Dr. Anthony Browne HunterAFPRL, nonprofit leader Merle McGee, & Dr. Shelley Eversley Baruch College for their expertise, as well as Equal Justice Initiative , which has documented Black enslavement & the Domestic Slave Trade in Montgomery.

Loved this article. Excellent opinion writing, Elizabeth Spiers .

This op-ed is a gorgeous celebration of sound, memory, culture, and family (both ancestral and community) from Dan Charnas.

Striking critique of lyrical content in Hip Hop from Kevin Powell politico.com/news/magazine/…

Rakim came out to support the John and Alice Coltrane House, and now you can, too. Please use the link to give if you can: thecoltranehome.org/donate/

This issue spans 4 generations of artists reflecting on the cultural, social & political influences of hip-hop. Writers include poets Elizabeth Alexander, Mahogany L. Browne, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, reg e gaines & fiction by Eisa Nefertari Ulen & gonzomike blurb.com/b/11760738-afr…

Grateful to see my novel along so many other excellent books on this list.