Quote for Today: Reni Eddo-Lodge
If you are disgusted by what you see, and if you feel the fire coursing through your veins, then it’s up to you. You don’t have to be the …
Quote for Today: Audre Lorde
I have seen situations where white women hear a racist remark, resent what has been said, become filled with fury, and remain silent because they are afraid. That unexpressed …
Featured Artist: Jonathan Yungkans
Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome back poet Jonathan Yungkans, this time with some wonderfully edgy social justice and political pieces. “Batman Came Out and Clubbed Me” takes us back to …
Quote for Today: Kimberlé Crenshaw
In 1976, Emma DeGraffenreid and several other black women sued General Motors for discrimination, arguing that the company segregated its workforce by race and gender: Blacks did one set …
Quote for Today: Anaïs Nin
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to …
Quote for Today: Muhammad Ali
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro …
Featured Artist: Lori Lasseter Hamilton
Our first Featured Artist of the June 1st “home” issue is poet Lori Lasseter Hamilton. We are thrilled to present this powerful feminist voice who traces her artistic roots back …
Look and Listen #35: Deeyah Khan via TEDx
Today’s focus is on the work of Norwegian born Deeyah Khan, and shows how the empathy behind her filmmaking is rooted in her own story. She is famous for Banaz: …
Look and Listen #34: Titus Underwood, Nashville Symphony
Titus Underwood is the Principal Oboe for the Nashville Symphony. You might assume that, as an artist with a highly educated and elite ensemble like a symphony, he wouldn’t encounter …
Look and Listen #12: Maya Angelou, We Wear the Mask
In honor of Juneteenth, Maya Angelou’s poem, “We Wear the Mask.” She was a masterful reader, dancing on the edge of emotion. May we all learn how to listen and …