Tagged: Books & Poetry & Short Stories

No Woman No Cry Excerpt from the book “No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley” The Multiracial Activist by Rita Marley with Hettie Jones May/June 2004 People ask what it’s like when...

Princess Ces’alena Excerpt from the book “Webster Fields: Princess Ces’alena” The Multiracial Activist by Mercedes Keyes May/June 2004 Lena sighed deep as she turned from the window, lifting her eyes towards the other side...

I've received a few emails from author/journalist Alan Elsner promoting his new book Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America's Prisons. I haven't read it yet, but will do so soon. You can check...

I interrupt this regularly scheduled battle for liberty to exercise a little capitalism. Somehow, I've ended up with an extra copy of The Venus Belt and Tom Paine Maru. Anyone looking for copies of...

I stumbled upon a strange, yet fascinating new comic style strip called The Outer Burrows. This New York based contrivance features a three to four panel strip of photos compiled by "atrowbri", with captions...

Just a quick question for my readers visiting from MixedFolks.com Forum. Did anyone read a now deleted thread started late last night, regarding a silly poem I wrote at sixteen in 1986, called The...

Rick Casey of the Houston Chronicle on Call the heat on Fahrenheit 451: Fahrenheit 451 is a great vehicle for getting budding minds to think about and discuss civic values. But few teachers have...

  You belong in the Cat Who Walks Through Walls. You are creative and cunning. Your works often feel empty to you, though others love them. You suspect that the universe and everyone in...

Hopefully they won’t make the movie. After Starship Troopers was tranformed from a book discussing cititizenship and civil responsibilities in the subtext of a hyper-militaristic subculture of the larger Terran Federation to an action...