Who will survive in America?
Few Americans
Very few Negroes
No crackers at all
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May 2, 2021
WHO WILL SURVIVE AMERICA?
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February 27, 2021
I CROSSED by ALI AL’AMIN MAZRUI
When I grasp you, my hands grasp nothing
but a corpse that died with no justice
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Listening Tree Poetry (LT)
February 27, 2021
I AM I by ALI AL’AMIN MAZRUI
River –
We stand on your bank
tears falling on us
that stream into your heart
Listening Tree Poetry (LT)
February 27, 2021
DOOR by ALI AL’AMIN MAZRUI
Everything looks at you twice
Ashamed, you look away,
you let it happen.
You can’t look for a fight.
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A Encyclopaedia Africana Listening Tree Poetry (LT)
October 3, 2020
AUDRE LORDE
Audre was diagnosed with cancer and chronicled her struggles in her first prose collection, The Cancer Journals.
Listening Tree Poetry (LT)
October 3, 2020
A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
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Listening Tree Poetry (LT)
October 3, 2020
Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings –
I know why the caged bird sings!
Listening Tree Poetry (LT)
September 27, 2020
TEACHER DON’T TEACH ME NO NONSENSE by FELA KUTI
Democrazy
DEMO-CRAZY
Crazy demo
Demonstration of craze
Crazy demonstration
If it no be craze
Why for Afrika?
Listening Tree Poetry (LT)
September 27, 2020
REDEMPTION SONG by BOB MARLEY
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Listening Tree Poetry (LT)
August 1, 2020
The Truth – Muhammad Ali
The lips of truth are ever closed,
The head of truth is upright.
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