The Entropy Room by Arthur Shattuck O’Keefe It occurred to Yugo, as he sat in his kitchen drinking coffee, that it had been almost three years to the day since he’d been pushed off the train platform. With a skill born of habit and necessity, he banished...
Black Rooms and Oracle Bones Black rooms lie littered with bleached bones sterling white like plated silver tibia and fibia, Their dainty curves drawing the eye across them as a mathematician’s compass draws truths In leaden lines on carbon paper...
Melvin James “Sy” Oliver: Creator of the Lunceford Sound (1910–1988), & Zach Whyte by Candice Watkins Contributing Writer Aach Whyte attended Wilberforce College in the early 1920s, where he was an early member of Horace Henderson’s Collegians. After...
The Fight | Acrylic | 16″x16″ Artist Spotlight *** ***Art As An Addiction by Courtney Kenny Porto For me, creating is an addiction. Trying to suppress it is like trying to suppress a cough – it may appear to work for a very short while but it...
Tom Deisboeck Serial Killers, Successful Actors and Crest Yellowing Strips by Galanty Miller Contributor Columnist I know for a FACT that over 70 percent of American children under the age of 8 are affiliated with the Communist Party./ What’s the world...
Photo by Monteith McCollum Mendi & Keith Obadike take questions about their work in a presentation at the Binghamton Tech Center, March 27, 2018. An Architecture of Sound: Music’s Spacial Dimensions with Julian G. Guevara Interviewer The...
Modern Family Poem The widened arms of the marina stretch below the fourth-story balcony. Briny winds waft into the open door, into the small apartment. She sleeps through the noon-bells, her nocturnal employment awaits. The atmosphere seems heavy and oppressive. It...
Photo by Marco Secchi on Unsplash *** THE CRACKED EGG by J. Palombo Politics Editor My six-year-old grandnephew Andy found himself in an unexpectedly poignant predicament the other day. While coloring Easter eggs with his grandmother, grandfather, his older...
*** Black With Purple Marbling by Lilvia Soto Contributing Writer Black with purple marbling is what you would expect a typical American teenage girl to choose. That was one of my daughter’s favorite colors when she was an adolescent. Now I have a...
Works: Mother monarch treads water, Floats gently, to pretend her feet touch the ocean floor, Her tired mind distributes a headache, pounding against her skull like waves. The ocean spray masks her strongest tears As she works to raise her own, up above...
TAKE TEN SAFARI Category: Kenya Song Title: Malaika (My Angel) Artist: Fadhili William and The Black Shadows Year: 1963 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8siIAxxDuDQ Category: Ghana Song Title: I Walk Alone Artist: Marijata Year: 1976...
Educated Hope in Dark Times: The Challenge of the Educator-Artist as a Public Intellectual by Henry A. Giroux Guest Contributor Increasingly, neoliberal regimes across Europe and North America have waged a major assault on critical pedagogy, public pedagogy,...
Education as a Weapon of Struggle: Rethinking the Parkland Uprising in the Age of Mass Violence by HENRY GIROUX Under the regime of Donald Trump, the role of education in producing the formative cultures in and out of schools necessary to support...
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