Francia Marquez, a single mother and former housekeeper, will be Colombia’s first Black woman vice president after a historic vote on Sunday saw the Andean country pick its first leftist president, Gustavo Petro. — Read on http://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-elects-first-black-woman-vp-francia-marquez-who-vows-stand-nobodies-2022-06-20/
Author Archives: aidarends
The Second Year
I’m not crying…you’re crying (too)
Why does the United States have a military base in Ghana? : Peoples Dispatch
An interview with Kwesi Pratt Jr., a journalist and leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana — Read on peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/15/why-does-the-united-states-have-a-military-base-in-ghana/
new york tang poem
chameleon eritrea azalea gunshot subway psychedelia beeswax beesting paranoia peony basil anatolia
George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94
“Born in Barbados, he was among the last of a generation of writers who traced the Caribbean’s transition to independence.” Clay Risen renders … George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94
epistolary poets
poets when writing letters always seem to forget to leave space for their signature the sign of a mind obsessed with line enjambment so that they forget their own name sincerely,
If You Are Not a Myth
if you are not a myth whose reality are you? if you are not a reality whose myth are you?
[new track] SEX ON THE HORMONES
it is
is this luv is this luv is this luv is this luv that i’m feeling? say marley and it is it always is i know myself i know this luv know this luv know this luv know this luv that i’m feeling
i made the decision
i made the decision to be wholei made the decision to be lovedi made the decision to envelop myselfi made the decision to fighti made the decision to cryi made the decision to knowi made the decision was worth the blood
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