Roy Jones
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Been a few places, done a few things.
I fully agree with the author so I guess that makes me part of the problem.
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No, Women Aren’t the Problem
America is rapidly becoming the manosphere, but sure, let’s go after the “feminization” of culture.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I fully agree with the author so I guess that makes me part of the problem.
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Watching Donalds simping for the Trump bill and assuring everyone that this time "trickle down economics" will REALLY work for the benefit of all, reminded me of Bullwinkle telling Rocky that "this time" he really could pull a rabbit out of his hat.
July 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Watching Donalds simping for the Trump bill and assuring everyone that this time "trickle down economics" will REALLY work for the benefit of all, reminded me of Bullwinkle telling Rocky that "this time" he really could pull a rabbit out of his hat.
This piece will be played at July 4th concerts all over the country. It was written by a gay Jewish socialist whose parents were Russian immigrants. There's a lesson in this that I wish more Americans understood and took to heart.
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Fanfare for the Common Man - “The Presidents Own®” U.S. Marine Band®
YouTube video by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square
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July 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This piece will be played at July 4th concerts all over the country. It was written by a gay Jewish socialist whose parents were Russian immigrants. There's a lesson in this that I wish more Americans understood and took to heart.
youtu.be/0KxMc_tyQBo?...
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This is why we should all read more Kurt Vonnegut...
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Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
YouTube video by David Comberg
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June 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is why we should all read more Kurt Vonnegut...
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An insider's view of the demise of VOA and its sibling networks
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The Last Days at Voice of America
Covering the press freedom beat at VOA, I got a front-row seat to its demise.
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March 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
An insider's view of the demise of VOA and its sibling networks
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As in previous years, for my final Black History Month post, here's a performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Lyrics by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson
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"Lift Every Voice and Sing" Performed by Ledisi at Super Bowl LIX
YouTube video by NFL
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March 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
As in previous years, for my final Black History Month post, here's a performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Lyrics by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
For my people - Margaret Walker
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For my people - Margaret Walker
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For My People
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs
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February 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
For my people - Margaret Walker
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For my people - Margaret Walker
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It appears that the Republican reps who've been catching hell from their constituents at their town hall meetings because of the bull-in-a-china-shop tactics of Elon Musk and his DOGE whiz-kids have come up with a solution...They're cutting back on constituent town hall meetings.
Problem solved
Problem solved
February 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
It appears that the Republican reps who've been catching hell from their constituents at their town hall meetings because of the bull-in-a-china-shop tactics of Elon Musk and his DOGE whiz-kids have come up with a solution...They're cutting back on constituent town hall meetings.
Problem solved
Problem solved
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Writing an Elegy - Rickey Laurentiis
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Writing an Elegy - Rickey Laurentiis
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Writing an Elegy
This is what I see: the Spanish moss as convicted to its branches — gray, colonial, but in my century now, suspended so close each vein might well be a whole, hanging fiction of my mind.
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February 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Writing an Elegy - Rickey Laurentiis
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Writing an Elegy - Rickey Laurentiis
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Psalm 150 - Jericho Brown
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Psalm 150 - Jericho Brown
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Psalm 150
Some folks fool themselves into believing, But I know what I know once, at the height Of hopeless touching, my man and I hold Our breaths, certain we can stop time or maybe Eliminate it from our lives...
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February 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Psalm 150 - Jericho Brown
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Psalm 150 - Jericho Brown
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon - Gwendolyn Brooks
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A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon - Gwendolyn Brooks
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“A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon” by Gwendolyn Brooks
Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910.
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February 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon - Gwendolyn Brooks
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A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon - Gwendolyn Brooks
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson
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A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson
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Poetry By Heart
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February 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson
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A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson
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[Hegel says] that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.
- John Brunner "Stand on Zanzibar"
- John Brunner "Stand on Zanzibar"
February 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
[Hegel says] that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.
- John Brunner "Stand on Zanzibar"
- John Brunner "Stand on Zanzibar"
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
A memory - Saeed Jones
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A memory - Saeed Jones
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A Memory
When they finished burying me, what was left of me
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February 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
A memory - Saeed Jones
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A memory - Saeed Jones
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
A Brief History of Hostility - Jamaal May
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A Brief History of Hostility - Jamaal May
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A Brief History of Hostility
In the beginning
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February 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
A Brief History of Hostility - Jamaal May
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A Brief History of Hostility - Jamaal May
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class - Clint Smith
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Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class - Clint Smith
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"Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class" poem by Clint Smith
YouTube video by TED-Ed
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February 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class - Clint Smith
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Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class - Clint Smith
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
American Income - Afaa Michael Weaver
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American Income - Afaa Michael Weaver
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American Income
The survey says all groups can make more money if they lose weight except black men...men of other colors and women of all colors have more gold, but black men are the summary of weight, a lead thick ...
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February 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
American Income - Afaa Michael Weaver
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American Income - Afaa Michael Weaver
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Heartbeats - Melvin Dixon
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Heartbeats - Melvin Dixon
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Heartbeats
Work out. Ten laps.
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February 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Heartbeats - Melvin Dixon
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Heartbeats - Melvin Dixon
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Wade in the Water - Tracy K. Smith
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Wade in the Water - Tracy K. Smith
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Tracy K. Smith reads 'Wade in the Water'
YouTube video by T. S. Eliot Prize
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February 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Wade in the Water - Tracy K. Smith
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Wade in the Water - Tracy K. Smith
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over - Joy Priest
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Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over - Joy Priest
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Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over
I want to believe Don West
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February 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over - Joy Priest
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Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over - Joy Priest
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Hotbed 66 - Nikky Finney
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Hotbed 66 - Nikky Finney
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Hotbed 66
They tell me that she spent her days staring at the eyes
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February 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Hotbed 66 - Nikky Finney
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Hotbed 66 - Nikky Finney
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
A Place in the Country - Toi Derricotte
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A Place in the Country - Toi Derricotte
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A Place in the Country
We like the houses here.
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February 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
A Place in the Country - Toi Derricotte
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A Place in the Country - Toi Derricotte
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Frederick Douglass - Robert Hayden
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Frederick Douglass - Robert Hayden
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Frederick Douglass
When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all, when it is truly instinct, brain m...
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February 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Frederick Douglass - Robert Hayden
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Frederick Douglass - Robert Hayden
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
All the White Boys on the Eastside Loved Larry Bird - Hanif Willis Abdurraqib
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All the White Boys on the Eastside Loved Larry Bird - Hanif Willis Abdurraqib
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Hanif Willis Abdurraqib - All the White Boys on the Eastside Loved Larry Bird
YouTube video by Button Poetry
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February 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
All the White Boys on the Eastside Loved Larry Bird - Hanif Willis Abdurraqib
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All the White Boys on the Eastside Loved Larry Bird - Hanif Willis Abdurraqib
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Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Coherence in Consequence - Claudia Rankine
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Coherence in Consequence - Claudia Rankine
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Coherence in Consequence
Imagine them in black, the morning heat losing within this day that floats.
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February 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth
Coherence in Consequence - Claudia Rankine
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Coherence in Consequence - Claudia Rankine
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