A Dream Deferred..(Friday Night Poetry Corner #95)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org (Feature picture A-Monster-Calls-Illustration.jpg) It really doesn't matter how many Black History Months that come--I will always showcase this poem first or at least second.  It is my personal favorites and one if not the greatest piece of poetic literature I ever read...   A Dream Deferred   What happens to a dream deferred? Does … Continue reading A Dream Deferred..(Friday Night Poetry Corner #95)

“I’m gonna teach–AND YOU GONNA LISTEN!!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVrBOpFZZcQ   “Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black … Continue reading “I’m gonna teach–AND YOU GONNA LISTEN!!”