Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World.

Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series.

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of ot….

As goes love so goes life..

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established..

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whi….

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mir….

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends..

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language..

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine..

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive fo….

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same..

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize t….

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he ….

In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recogn….

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new..

While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the a….

As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps, operating to implemen….

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second..

September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembr….

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way….