There are millions and we are all different — Roll Call — Reginald Dwayne Betts. Martin Espada. Monica Youn. Edgar Lee Masters. Lawrence Joseph. J.P. Howard. The list is long. Millions worldwide. Poets who are also lawyers. Lawyers who are also poets. It feels like it is not a fit but it is for me. Always fit. For many, like Evie Shockley…

My favorite guided spiritual meditation — Many nights, I listen to guided meditations to fall asleep. It is how I am wired. A soft voice to put me in the present and to focus on nothing at all but the immediate. It is how to live. No worries about tomorrow, yesterday, or some bill to pay…

White Supremacists, Of Course. — “Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.” — Derrick Bell Way back in 1995, Derrick Bell, one of the key players in the Critical Race Theory movement, wrote about the attacks on the movement from many different ideological spectrums. This is back when CRT…

Let’s chop up some history and progress — The NFL For the first time in its history, the National Football League in its flagship event — the Super Bowl — will not have a “white” quarterback starting for either team. It doesn’t matter to me really. But, it seems to matter to the media. This fact has been mentioned everyday…

Is the white-collar world about to be hit like Flint, Michigan? — I have friends who are using CHAT-GPT. They are using it for all sorts of written tasks. I say they are playing with fire. When automation came to the industrial blue-collar areas in America, and when jobs were outsourced, these parts of the U.S. lost jobs like trees lose leaves…

Corporate news outlets should not be showing the murders of Black people on screen for profit — “100 years ago professional photographers made postcards of lynchings as souvenirs for white supremacists and violent threats to the oppressed. Today’s airings of body cam video serve the same purposes.” Rick Levine wrote that. He is a random writer on Twitter. Mr. Levine is on point. I don’t watch these…

His 1944 essay is a precursor to the 1619 Project — When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was just 15, he won an essay contest as a student at Booker T. Washington High School. In winning the competition, sponsored by the black Elks, King won the right to deliver his essay orally in Dublin, Georgia. King’s essay, “The Negro…

The city of Jordan, Maryland, has passed an ordinance protecting the abused — In the city of Jordan, Maryland, located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, if you call an African American the “N-word” and you are not African American, you can be punched out. Yes! It is the law in the city. The law has never been tested, but it is on…