While metal chooses some of us, others may just have been born that way, and Ohene Ifrit could be one of those people.
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Hidden Sluggers: The History of Amber Valley and its Baseball Team
Up in Amber Valley, J.D. Edwards was known for using his passion for sports as a tool for political unity. So when he started his own team, known as the Amber Valley Baseball Team, it was no surprise to the community, nor the rest of Wild Rose Country.
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A poem of Solidarity
For my brothers and my sisters
Of the R E D
Same way BLM
Got y’all marching with me
Gotta shed a little love
Spot a little of light
BLM be on my left
And I got RED on my right
Ballin’ up both fists
We be on the resist
Sick and tired be shit on
Now we taking a piss
Mobilizing online
Gonna march in the streets
We get met with opposition
Clock us takin’ the beats
It’s the same old story
That you tired of hearing
It’s the same old glory
That we tired of fearing
So we challenge those who never live
With something to lose
If you’re gonna walk a mile with us
Then take off your shoes
Predictably some people wanna play the blame game
Privatizing privilege
Perpetuating poor
Forego a light stroll down Memory Lane
Let me simply take you all on a Starlight Tour
Sixties scooping
Seventies slaughter
Aching eighties
Nineties Nada
Damn thing changed
We past 2000
Lack of Health Care
Last of Housing
Sift through semantics
Talk etymology
Sometimes subtly
Suppressing the psychology
Displaced
Now Found
On the reservation
Understand the word
Means state of limitation
Paying much attention to sensational drama
Speaking not of Intergenerational Trauma
Looking for injustice
It’s right here at home
Down with Apartheid
It’s based in our own
First things first now
Understand treaty
Doesn’t mean surrender
Doesn’t mean needy
All are us of Stewarts
And not just some
With the needs that are greater
Than the few or the one
Copyright © 2021
Wakefield Brewster
aka: DaLyrical Pitbull
Professional Poet & Spoken Word Artist
Professional Poetic Interpreter™️
Reflections on Black Womanhood: On Joy & Life
Mainstream media has trained society to absorb trauma narratives about Black women, making us believe many lies about Black women’s bodies and our sense of self. To counteract those narratives, Sarah speaks with three Black women from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
Read MoreA new multidisciplinary artist development program is launching this fall
As of July 20, 2021, artists can apply to work under the leadership of Jae Sterling and Contra through Arts Commons Incubator - a new multidisciplinary artist development program.
Malcolm Gladwell and the Dangers of Light Skinned Privilege
Outliers is one of the most unique books I have ever read (for several reasons), this is a book where Gladwell makes the dubious claim that an individual’s birth month will determine their ability to be a great professional hockey player, backing up the claim with statistics. A real Canadian dream. However, these causal narratives allow Gladwell to slip in some of his more problematic ideas.
Read MorePopular Music, White Supremacy, and The Blues Part 3
Without the long history built on the backs of enslaved peoples of Africa, the musical landscape of the world as we know it today would be very different. As the blues were born out of a deep, intrinsic need to connect with one's origins and build community, so have been many of the most listened to genres across the globe.
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