The year of my birth was cause for widespread celebration. There were huge outdoor parties in New York and large-scale fireworks that reached the moon. They partied like it was 1969! Because it was. The moon landing was televised. Woodstock … Continue reading Moonwalking on a Revolutionary Summer’s Dream
By Carl McRoy Reparations – a musical survey No more shall they in bondage toil, Let my people go; Let them come out with Egypt’s spoil, Let my people go. We have given our sweat and all our tears We stumbled through this life for more than 300 years We’ve been separated from the land which we knew Stripped of our culture, people you know it’s true Piece of the pick We picked a piece Of land we deservin’ now Reparation, a piece of the nation Millions in slave ships landed, Whipped and chained and branded. 300 years of free … Continue reading The Reparations Blues
If we’re God’s poetry (Ephesians 2:10). . . What does it mean to be created in the image of God? How does that inform the way we live and inspire the ways we treat each other? “The true alchemists do … Continue reading Anthropoetics: Embodiment, Equality, Environment
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