We are survivors: we the descendants of the Africans who endured the wretched march to the west coast of their continent, brutal confinement, and cruel transatlantic passage, to reach alive—somehow alive—the shores of a new world.
The Art of Listening
It is difficult to bark while
the teeth are clinched
so it goes, deep growl
after mean-ass growl
We stayed one night at Karl’s place in Jimena de la Frontera in southern Spain. Let me begin with the PROs.
How a Crisis of Books Led to a Social Awakening
