by Raymond Nat Turner
If there’s one thing Black children don’t need, it’s a Role Model like this one.
Role Model… Or, Fast Food For Thought?
by Raymond Nat Turner
He orders
Take out
Tuesdays, and
Justice is served
On shards of glass,
Pulverized cement and
A bloody batter of
Blackened brains
Over filet of female
Infants—their eggs
Delicacies for the caviar
Cayman Island crowd!
Question: should grandsons
Cam and B, seven and nine,
Aspire to such heights?
Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at upsurgejazz.com.
Raymond Nat Turner © 2013 All Rights Reserved
Despite Trump’s tariffs battering the fossil fuel industry, bipartisan policies, including Democrat-backed subsidies, are rescuing Big Oil, locking in climate destruction while working-class…
Accelerating crises of imperialism in Haiti, Ecuador, and beyond highlight the urgent need for regional Pan-Africanist, anti-imperialist unity and strategy.
"Saturday Mornings" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
The future of the Christian church on the continent depends on the ability to develop an authentic African Christianity, moving away from its westernized forms.
Black support for Palestine underscores the fight against empire, revealing how Israel’s violence in Gaza serves U.S. hegemony and white supremacy, with Palestinian freedom as a catalyst for global…
