With practice I have been able to generate an invisible ball of energy with definite size and curvature my hands can circumnavigate and when I bring it towards the center of my chest a rush like wild horses over a hill of wildness, or a woman’s hands pass through me everything vanishes even myself part taken elsewhere husk left behind time is irrelevant molecules mix with blood platelets […]
Larry Carter | The Revolution of 1964
Many people equate the word “revolution” with violence when it simply means, as the American Heritage Dictionary says, “activities directed to bringing about social change.” I like to say that revolutions begin the minute someone decides to stand up and speak out. This is what plants the seeds of change in the minds of the people. Thus, the seeds of change were planted in the poetry of Phyllis Wheatley, the […]
Larry Carter | An empowering moment
The year was 1968 and all eyes were on the summer Olympics. I was on an extended summer vacation due to the teachers’ strike in New York City. Being me, I was not too sad about the strike; in fact I rather enjoyed my extended summer break. I was a fourteen-year-old athlete and involved myself in playing a lot of football, basketball and baseball. I enjoyed the World Series games […]
Somaly Mam | Something in me has always been a fighter
I’ve had a hard time facing the subject of human trafficking. Surely we ended slavery a century ago, I told myself. Perhaps activists were overstating the case, using a provocative term, “slavery,” to compel our attention. Then Somaly Mam received a CNN Hero award in 2006 and a primetime national TV audience was introduced to a former sex slave transformed into a radiant survivor, doing daily battle on behalf of […]
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