April 2011
210 posts
MUMIA GETS NEW SENTENCE HEARING →
“I was grappling with this, with a world in which the fact of blackness had...”
– Sylvia Wynter interview with David Scott in Small Axe (p.134)
dream hampton + me: a conversation
britnidanielle:
a little while ago i had the pleasure of sitting down with one of my favorite writers, dream hampton to chat about a myriad of things from hip-hop, to black women and abortion, to surviving in a post-capitalist world. #heavy.
two interviews have been published by Clutch Magazine (here & here), but i’m sharing the complete, unedited, amazingly dope convo with you.
...
gone, gone, gone.
“Friends who feed your soul are gold.”
“…change is in the air, my reach is everywhere…I make it easy…”
Author Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts in Seattle reading... →
“Day 4 and Moscow is unlike anywhere I’ve ever been.”
“the unbearable weight of staying
i don’t know when love became elusive...”
– warsan shire
“Hey!
Gentlemen!
Amateurs
of sacrilege,
crime,
and carnage,
have you seen...”
– Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
Homeless Woman, Arrested For Sending Son To School... →
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring...”
– Anaïs Nin
Scott Sisters speak in Brooklyn 4/23 →
lumumbabandele:
SATURDAY: SCOTT SISTERS SPEAK IN BROOKLYN!
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement & National Conference of Black Lawyers
To Host Forum featuring Jamie & Gladys Scott and Chokwe Lumumba,
with panelists Michael Tarif Warren, Marc Lamont Hill, and Rukia Lumumba,…
Pushkin's African Ancestry →
