Getting a whooping in Kansas
Rep. Gail Finney (see photo to right) introduced a bill to not just reinforce using corporal punishment wherever kids are, but to do it harder–literally. Finney’s bill called for a definition of spanking that should result in redness or bruising. I’m a strong opponent to spankings, especially with it is in isolation of other option. […]
A Kwansaba for Baraka
I presented my first Kwansaba publicly at the Kwansaba Celebration for Amiri Baraka at the Sunshine Performing Arts Center, East St. Louis on February 18, 2014. Kwansaba is a poetic form created by Eugene B. Redmond and the EBR Writers Club in 1995. (Photo credit: Roscoe Crenshaw) Baraka He was a genius with vision […]
Will there be justice for Jordan?
The State of Florida has rested its case in the murder trial of Michael Dunn. It’s done a better job than it did in the Dunn Trayvon Martin case, i.e. charging Dunn also with attempted murder of Jordan Davis’ friends who were also in the car at the time of the shooting, NOT charging Dunn’s fiancee’ […]