racism
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BLOOD SOAKED ROOTS
Our tortured nationTraumatized and polarizedOverwhelming cognitive dissonanceDisguising the mendacity of the system We are an age-old treeAnchored to blood soaked…
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CROWN OF THORNS: the politics of Basquiat
Fierce and iconicStyle jaw-droppingPaintings so primalLiberation embryonic Heart scarred by traumaArms scarred by dopeAddiction your assassinYour hangman’s rope Your art…
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BLOOD MEMORIES
You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of…
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ONYX ARES
Your energy ruggedComplexion onyxDefying stereotypeYour beauty iconic I have a white fatherI thought my full lips were uglyI thought my…
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RED LINE: reflections on resistance to genocide
Genocide in any age is horrifying…for painful months, my outrage has burned–but I had not found time to do more…
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LEGACY: an adams morgan story
Prologue: Displacement has a long history on this groundNacotchtank: the Piscataway people’s name for this landDescribing the convergence of…
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LIP BLOOD: stories of fire and water
e My lips are a place of deep conditioningMy full Black lipsSo much less perfect than my white father’sSo much…
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POLAROID HIEROGLYPHICS
Scattershot photo-opsGrip my mindPierce my heart Black beauty and faith rise transcendentRivers of injustice are never-ending Light and shadow interweaveCrafting…
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SACRED WITCHCRAFT
The river black and matte like rubber urges me to think of the pastOceans of crime and centuries of grime…
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THE GOSPEL OF NAIIMA
Living with purpose—living with joy and passionShe is an oracle of truth—of psychospiritual reactions Her totems are windows into her…
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VECTOR OF LIBERATION
This is a fantasy and a vision—it is a vector in the exercise of erotic imagination… I saw your lips…
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RAGE INCARNATE
Their eyes pulsate with emotion… All of their limbs are taut and ready animated by the urgency of the moment……
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VALKYRIE OF THE DIASPORA
Centuries of oppression and rebellion—of pain and joy—eddy in the waters of time—pregnant with generations of our blood memories… Valkyrie…
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ORACLE OF THE SNAKE
Snake medicine pulsates through my being, unleashing immense powers of creativitybringing psychic energy into awareness and channeling this magic…
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CYBERPUNK DIASPORA
dancers stomp, twist, and writhegiving voice to desires pent up deep insidewe long to rise as one and mobilizeour subaltern…
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NOIR EROTIQUE
I imagine you lying beside meblack on black—skin to skin I feel a fire of liberation deep withinI feel a…
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SEX GOD
your eyes entrance, ensnare, and inspireConjuring waves of ecstatic passion that rise up ever higheryour body is a talisman, a…
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VERSES for an UPRISING
collective grief and collective ragefreedom crushed, jailed and chainedwe rise in power saying all of their nameswe resist this…
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BLACK JOY
black bondage, black pain–black pride, black rageour people have been birthed through the torturous lacerations of whips and chains fear…
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BLACK PHALANX
black men are fucking beautiful–and it hurts me that sometimes i don’t see that i was born to a black…