One of the earliest female African American playwrights,Georgia Douglas Johnsonwas also an accomplished poet. Her first poem was published in the literary journal The Voice of the Negro in 1905. Later, her first collection of poems was published in 1916. Enjoy more of Georgia Douglas Johnson's...
“Mary’s right,” the other baseball cap said. Twenty-seven-year-old African-American Milton Rucker, who, to the amusement of the others wore his cap back to front, added, “After all, even a smaller climatic event on that scale would probably wipe out our civilization.” The diminutive...
Also, most young American university students have not traveled in other countries and are not very well-versed in international matters and do not know a lot about people from other countries. Foreign students usually find them friendly but not very well-informed about their countries or cultures...
When my daughter Emily was around three years old, an African American girl sat down next to us at the library. Emily pointed to the girl’s arm and asked, “Why is your skin brown?” The girl’s response was striking. “Because my mom and dad are like that. My brother said it do...
awardhighlightstheAfricanarchitectandthepeopleofBurkinaFaso. “Heknows,fromwithin,thatarchitectureisnotabouttheobjectbuttheobjective;notthe product,buttheprocess,”saidthe2022Jury.Kéré?sentirebodyofworkshowsusthepowerof materialrootedin place. His buildings,forand with communities,are directly ofthose communi...
t have access, and you’re shitting on the women fought so hard for that right. White women (who the 19th amendment mostly benefited) couldn’t vote until 1920. It hasn’t even been 100 years since we fought to vote. Many African American women couldn’t even vote prior to 1960 in ...
They also sport almost a foot-and-a-half-long tongue which I can say I have been on the receiving end of during my trip to Africa. Black Rhinos The rarest of theBig 5African animals to spot in Tanzania is by far the black rhinoceros. Numberingless than 200 individualsand having the ab...
Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, the two ‘Democratic’ senators who have done everything within their power to undermine the Biden administration’s agenda and the will of the majority of the American people, are once again telling us we can all go fuck ourselves. Instead of doing everything...
Pretty Ugly People is a 2008 American comedy drama film written and directed by Tate Taylor, and starring Missi Pyle, Melissa McCarthy, and Octavia Spencer. The film is the story of a group of friends brought together for a four day hike in the Montana wilderness by one their number...
not F*G or the F word. The F word is forever fuck, and I’ll give you fuck when you pry it from my cold dead hands. Besides which, calling fag the F word is frankly pretty gay. Jordan, an African-American, has the misfortune of living in an age in which his race has fallen ...