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 …
Look and Listen #7: The Ayes Have It, Savanah Leaf/Tiana Clark
This beautiful, elegiac short film by Savanah Leaf is a video poem. “The Ayes Have It” was written by Tiana Clark and speaks about being a mixed race woman in …
Look and Listen #5: Leah Anderson, You Ask Me What I Am So You May Know How To Fear Me from Button Poetry
There is a fine line between admiring someone and exploiting them. Leah Anderson explores how it feels to be singled out. “You Ask Me What I Am So You May …
Quote for Today: Akala
Racist insults leave you feeling dirty because, even at five years old, we already know on some level that, in this society at least, we are indeed lesser citizens with …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Alexander
It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #28: You Clap for Me Now from the UK via The Guardian
Globe-trotting Travel Series Day 28 features “You Clap for Me Now,” a poem by Darren James Smith, a content writer for Bridge Studios, a creative agency affiliated with News UK. …
Quote for Today: Cornel West
In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point …
Quote for Today: Téa Obreht
When your fight has purpose–to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent–it has a hope of finality. When the fight is about unraveling–when it is …