Archive for January, 2012

A Radical Welcome on King’s Birthday

Monday, January 16th, 2012

On the day we as a nation celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, I’m thinking about how I spent his actual birthday on Sunday. My white Atlanta-born girlfriend – a woman who was in her mother’s womb as she made sandwiches for black families coming to ATL for MLK’s funeral – and I rolled out [...]

“New Again: I was with the Shark” – Gil Scott-Heron Tribute

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

From “All/Us/We: a Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron” curated by Kevin Spicer at Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica.