I will never forget the first time I read “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” I was in high school and one of our English teachers handed it out to us on a single sheet of paper. I was stunned and engaged. That’s what his poetry and his music did. It surprised you with its [...]

I was invited to a beautiful event this past week, by Dolores Kendrick, Washington, DC’s Poet Laureate. She gathered about 50 people: poets, educators, friends, and poetry lovers, at the Naval Heritage Center’s dining room, beneath the Navy Memorial in downtown Washington, DC. We shared a wonderful dinner, listened to several poems and discussed “how [...]

Rosa Parks, whose December 1, 1955 arrest on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, sparked the Bus Protest there, vaulting a young Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, into the national spotlight. Now Rosa Parks’ image has a permanent place in the Washington National Cathedral’s Human Rights Porch. The images were designed by Chas Fagan and sculpted by [...]

It’s hard to believe that Bobby Sands brutal death after 66 days on a hunger strike took place 30 years ago today. A 27 year-old man who protested, with others in northern Irish jails, for the right to be political prisoners, took on the hunger strike and became the first of ten men to die [...]