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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
[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 whole
i made the decision
to be loved
i made the decision
to envelop myself
i made the decision
to fight
i made the decision
to cry
i made the decision
to know
i made the decision
was worth the blood
Treatment of Haitian migrants in Del Rio memorialized on coin | Miami Herald
A controversial moment captured last fall on the U.S. southern border of an officer on horseback corralling a Haitian migrant in Del Rio, Texas, has been memorialized on “a challenge coin.”
— Read on www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article262498842.html
go on
no tell me more
about how i need
to vote for this
clown who sends
billions to arm
and train the
global right wing
tell me the
potential
consequences of
not voting for
this sham
this shame
this lie
this game
tell me tell me
tell me tell me
so i know where
you stand when
the shit hits
the fan
Its Time For Us to Reclaim Juneteenth – Hood Communist
The militancy of the Black Power movement and the overall emerging militancy of African and other colonized people signaled a change in our enemy’s approach. If you’ve been paying close attention to the tactics of the capitalist system over the last 25 years, you can see the trend. The mass movements of the past taught the capitalist system that their go-to reliance exclusively upon brutality and ironclad control is no longer a viable strategy. Make no mistake about it, of course, they still utilize brutality, and they always will, but they have made adjustments. They have learned the meaning of Sekou Toure’s axiom that “Truth crushed to earth will rise a thousand times.”
— Read on hoodcommunist.org/2022/06/16/its-time-for-us-to-reclaim-juneteenth/