Jessica Care Moore – Spoken Word Warrior
The Detroit native and spoken word warrior, jessica Care moore, delivers rhymes that leave…
by Venicia Gray | National Partnership for Women & Families As Elder Millennials (fabulous individuals born in the 1980s) are wont to do, I often find myself scrolling through my phone after my toddler has gone to bed. This act…
Meet our silent killers. They lurk. They creep. Like assailants in the dark, they can quickly swoop down and consume us in a deadly clutch. They are sinister and sometimes strike without warning. For Black women, they exact incalculable harm…
By Gwen McKinney The sinister 3-D contraption pinched and compressed my breast between two cold, plastic paddles. Part torture chamber, part lifesaver, this diagnostic mammography would deliver the dreaded message: Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS). It was early stage DCIS…
By Levi Perrin This year continues to be a major change point for organized labor. If an agreement is not reached, the United Auto Workers Union plans a targeted strike of specific plants operated by Detroit’s three automakers. Of the…
Just Saying
Black Statue of Liberty
I stand still above an island, fist straight in the air / Scar on…
Gwendolyn Brooks – Lioness with a Pen
Gwendolyn Brooks used the Windy City’s breath to breathe life into poetry for decades…
When You Have Forgotten Sunday
And how you swore, if somebody beeped the bell, And how my heart played…
Sonia Sanchez – Prose and Prophecy
Sonia Sanchez invokes prose that takes no prisoners but commands prophecy on today and…
Blues
in the night / in my half hour / negro dreams / i hear…
His Excellency General Washington
Celestial choir! enthron’d in realms of light, Columbia’s scenes of glorious toils I write.
Phillis Wheatley – Global World
At a time when literary arts and the enslaved were often mutually exclusive, Wheatley…
A Labor Centennial ~ Erasures, Mergers and Warriors
The 19th Amendment Centennial coincides with the 100th Anniversary of SEIU, hailed the largest…
The Legacy Lives
Michelle Duster is a prolific writer, author and lecturer. Those assets have fueled her…
An American Sunrise
We were running out of breath, as we ran out to meet ourselves. We…
Let the Light Enter
The Dying Words of Goethe “Light! more light! the shadows deepen, And my life…