Tag: Los Angeles
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Ancestry in Progress
We must use our haunting to see how black life truly is and see how it could be otherwise.
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Stand Together
A nation, a state, a county, a city, and a community as wealthy as ours shouldn’t allow homelessness to happen.
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Overtime
Shaquille O’neal is crying on my television. A co-worker is weeping in my office. A dream version of me screams out in anguish.
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Urban Tumbleweed: The Dust That Clings…
“It’s just another day, another episode.” – Van Hunt, Dust Zadi Diaz tweeted this the other day in a retweet: Poetry helps get the creative juices going: RT @PoetryFound: Sign up to have a poem emailed to you each day. http://t.co/9GrTC64rmw — Zadi Diaz (@Zadi) January 19, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js That resonated with me as I’d…
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Humans of Los Angeles
“Man woman, you might as well dance. Get down, Zulu.” – Q-Tip, ManWomanBoogie This image showed up several times on twitter a few days ago. I disagree. I don’t know what I think the percentages might be but I do know that on most days, I see more acts of kindness than I do cruelty.…
Jason Toney 