Imagine my joy, relief, gratitude and wide-eyed wonder when, in 1994, as a redneck queer from dirt road Mississippi, I finally escaped the redneck iron curtain and immigrated to the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco. I centralized command of … Continue reading What Dreams May Come: Autumn of ’94
The American Psychological Association defines resilience as “the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.” If I were to give an … Continue reading The Resilience Music of Mavis Staples
Adapted from a chapter in Carl McRoy’s Black from the Past. Did you know Langston Hughes wrote his first published poem just after graduating high school . . . on the back of an envelope . . . in only … Continue reading Langston Hughes: Rivers from Eden to America
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