Dumas died weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the furious, fiery riots that followed. Dumas had moved with his family to Illinois, where he was teaching, and was only visiting New York City for a wedding when he was killed.
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More flowers!
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but i’m
gonna make this simple
you
kinda make my eyes dance and
i’m on an endless river bank
fuchsia rose petals under feet
This is a way to start a year in which our nation is in deep freeze
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How about these apples? Wait, not apples, flowers!
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shade-prefaced letter begging and bump accusations,
post-facial portraiture and black citational business
Let your cup runneth over
Over me
And with the crashing of waves
My heart to yours
With the song of the wind
I pledge allegiance to the
blood soaked flag of the
Dys-membered
Dys-United
Members Only
states of Un-America
Hard now
to flex my cheeks,
show my teeth
and smile.
Natalie Baker's flowers are keeping Tribes fresh!
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Kelley may have suffered most from the relentless conveyor belt of life, which constantly carries new things into sight and propels older ones away.
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When Teresa Rosenthal was a young girl, she witnessed her father’s physical abuse of her mother, and it affected her deeply.
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Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice is the finest sort of biography: impeccably researched and chock full of detail, it also compels the reader by crafting a powerful image of the world in which Louise and her comrades lived and struggled.
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We at Tribes are loving this beautiful Christmas card from the family of one of our most beloved volunteers, Phoebe. Check it out!
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DEFA is presently curating an art exhibit entitled "The American Dream: The Latino Experience in America,” to be shown at the Belskie Museum of Art, in Closter, New Jersey, in April, 2018.
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