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A Black Reader’s Response to “Racism Today, Racism Tomorrow, Racism Forever”

Analysis, Jerome Parent, Nonfiction / By a featured contributor

In Jerome Parent’s article “Racism Today, Racism Tomorrow, Racism Forever,” he discusses the idea that racism lives in all of us. It seems the negative connotation of the label “racist” prevents us from evaluating the “racism” in ourselves and its impact on our lives. I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, once known as the Black Wall Street. […]

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Lindsay Hand Art

Galleries, Painting / By a featured contributor

To Lindsay Hand, art is “a meditation, a necessity as an action for me to create, a growing process, a presence. It’s a beautiful thing, to just step in and be, but it also can require things that need to be said. That’s speaking from my own art and my process. Viewing other people’s art

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For Katy – August, 2014

Creative Writing, Shorts, Writings / By a featured contributor

We hear the drumbeats of these transformations— Heart throbs resonate from atop an unclimbed hill In the center of from wherever you are watching us. You were always the one who was so in love with life— We—will only see a single sunset today— Right now—is the only moment we can be sure of… So

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Happy Birthday, Lon Chaney

Biography / By a featured contributor

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Grow Zone Action: Habitat Restoration in Austin, Texas

Analysis, News, Perspective for Hire / By a featured contributor

Walk the streets of Austin, Texas and you’ll notice an abundance of colorful bushes and flowers, to include Fern Leaf Lavender, Texas Lantana, Mother-of-Thyme, Autumn Sage, Whirling Butterfly Bush, and Fall Aster, all of which are indigenous to the state. The parks are equally lush. River and creek banks are thick with greenery and foliage.

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John Ruskin and Turner’s The Slave Ship

Analysis, Nonfiction, Painting, Writings / By a featured contributor

But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever painted by man, is that of the Slave Ship, the chief Academy picture of the Exhibition of 1840. It is a sunset on the Atlantic after prolonged storm; but the storm is partially lulled, and the torn

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