April 2018

Blog Archive

Mon, 30.04.2018

The Alarm of Oppression

I recently researched the Herero people of Namibia and came across the Berlin Conference of 1898. I was stunned yet educated by a missing piece in what was making my alarm ring. This gathering of whites in Germany calculated an assault on Africa after American slavery to usher in European colonization. From Demark to Portugal, […]

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New Poem Each Day

Poetry Corner

Somewhere in the light above the womb, black trees and white trees populate the world. It is a March landscape, the only birds around are small and black. MY GRANDFATHER WALKS IN THE WOODS by Marilyn Nelson.
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