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Audre Lorde wrote, “Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.”

Assata Shakur embodied this.
The tradition part 1 Carry it on now. Carry it on. Carry it on now. Carry it on. Carry on the tradition. There were Black People since the childhood of time who carried it on. In Ghana and Mali and Timbuktu we carried it on. Carried on the tradition. We hid in the bush when the slavemasters came holding spears. And when the moment was ripe, leaped out and lanced the lifeblood of would-be masters. We carried it on. On slave ships, hurling ourselves into oceans. Slitting the throats of our captors. We took their whips. And their ships. Blood flowed in the Atlantic— and it wasn't all ours. We carried it on. Fed Missy arsenic apple pies. Stole the axes from the shed. Went and chopped off master's head. We ran. We fought. We organized a railroad. An underground. We carried it on. In newspapers. In meetings. In arguments and streetfights. We carried it (The tradition part 2) In tales told to children. In chants and cantatas. In poems and blues songs and saxophone screams, We carried it on. In classrooms. In churches. In courtrooms. In prisons. We carried it on. On soapboxes and picket lines. Welfare lines, unemployment lines. Our lives on the line, We carried it on. In sit-ins and pray-ins And march-ins and die-ins, We carried it on. On cold Missouri midnights Pitting shotguns against lynch mobs. On burning Brooklyn streets. Pitting rocks against rifles, We carried it on. Against water hoses and bulldogs. Against nightsticks and bullets. Against tanks and tear gas. Needles and nooses. Bombs and birth control. We carried it on. In Selma and San Juan. Mozambique. Mississippi. In Brazil and in Boston, We carried it on. Through the lies and the sell-outs. The mistakes and the madness. Through pain and hunger and frustration, We carried it on. Carried on the tradition. Carried a strong tradition. Carried a proud tradition. (The tradition part 3) Carried a Black tradition. Carry it on. Pass it down to the children. Pass it down. Carry it on. Carry it on now. Carry it on TO FREEDOM!
September 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Can’t wait to celebrate this book’s publication in the DMV tomorrow. 2pm at MLK library. Free and open to all. RSVPs still available. Hope to see you there!

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September 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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honestthief.bsky.social
When students ask "why everything is about race" I have them select a noun.

Any noun.

"Air?"

Factories are built next to Black neighborhoods...

"Cars"

Interstates...

"Football"

Few if any minority coaches...

"Dirt"

Slavery and the entire US economy...

It takes a minute but they get it.
August 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
geogrrl.bsky.social
One of my 5th graders wanted to start a small group book club with Crenshaw, so I’m reading it with them now for the first time. ❤️ She has read it twice already and can’t wait to read it again.
August 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM