America to Me: With Ke'Shawn Kumsa, Kendale McCoy, Grant Lee, Charles Donalson Jr.. Follows students, teachers and administrators in suburban Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High School over the course of a year.
As I was reading the poem Langston Hughes wrote, Let America be America again, I began to think about slavery and how half of the population of people in America were not free but slaves. Poem is written by a 13 year old.
Gift Writings, My Most Viewed Images at Fine Art America, Poem for Dispatcher, Sayings by Felipe Adan LermaNovember 13, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Cypress Creek Mid Afternoon Mid October” : Circa 2019 Very unusual to have so many photos from my collecti...
The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl. ~ Kelly Clarkson ~ I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense ...
this film works for me. i know it wont work for everybody, but it is worth a go, and it probably is more enjoyable if you've had a couple of drinks and are in a forgiving mood. this film works for me because it is made with verve, everybody (for better or for worse) appears...
(It never was America to me.) O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. (There’s never been equality for me, ...
I have just signed a contract for a new book,Dread and Splendor: Paintings and Poems for a New Earth,with my artist colleague, Irene Christensen with Shanti Arts Press. It should be out in 2025. I will chronicle this experience to publication here on Thursdays. Follow me here. ...
'Let America Be America Again' focuses on the idea of the American Dream and how, for many, attaining freedom, equality, and happiness, which the dream encapsulates, is nigh on impossible. The speaker in the poem outlines the reasons why this ideal America has gone, or never was, but cou...
Going to West Point would give me the opportunity of visiting the two great cities of the continent, Philadelphia and New York. This was enough. Later he mentions: a military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even I should be graduated,...
A poem, on the rising glory of America by Hugh Henry Brackenridge - LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to un