Spoken Word: Who Will Fight for Girls?
Video of my performance at the Passion for Christ Movement’s Rhetoric 2016 show has been released on the P4CM YouTube channel. You can watch below.
Everyone Should Take a Knee
In many organized sports, when a player is badly injured, as a sign of respect and concern, all other players take a knee. The cheerleaders of both teams cease to cheer. The bands do not make a sound. A hush…
Spoken Word: It’s Personal (Black Lives Matter)
I am grateful for all the photographs of black boys and men that helped make up this project. I received a significant amount from parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins, and friends – essentially the village that helps to raise…
Spoken Word: Must Love Dogs
I performed my most recent poem “Must Love Dogs” at award-winning poet Jasmine Mans’ DC show on February 7, 2016. On YouTube: https://youtu.be/wpOfliBEjgM
American Dreams and Nightmares
I. Then When my friends and I told our Belizean Creole tour guide we were from America, he said that years ago he lived in Phoenix and then Los Angeles. When asked why he left, his answer was simple: racism.…
Fruitvale, Ferguson & Other Things I Can No Longer Avoid
A couple of weeks ago, I finally mustered up the courage to watch Fruitvale Station. I was interested in the movie when it was released in 2013, but I knew its tragic ending in advance and, considering the way my…
