Rosa Parks: From Cousin Betty

On the day she refused to yield her bus seat to a white man, Rosa Parks was remembering Emmett Till. The Chicago teen had been lynched in Mississippi only a few months before Parks' protest. His choked, axed, beaten and shot body was one of the sparks igniting the modern civil rights movement. I believe Trayvon Martin's unjustified and unpunished killing will help launch a stronger movement for equal justice.

RIP Adrienne Rich

Today, we have lost one our giants. Adrienne Rich, one of the mothers of modern feminism, post-modernism, and contemporary literature.

1929-2012

Chaka Khan and Friends: A Tribute to Trayvon Martin

Zimmerman Says Our Poor Dead Martin Reached For the Gun

A Play Known as He Reached for the Gun

This is a better version of that play




The former sounds like Jimmy Lee Jackson to me.

Speak Out for Hana Al Shalabi

Justice for Trayvon Martin

Patti's Tribute to Whitney

"The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer." -- James Baldwin. The Nation. July 11, 1966.

Wendy Williams' Tearful Tribute to Whitney Houston

Bless you, Wendy Williams....

Whitney Houston's Obituary, RIP 1963-2012

The Greatest Love of All

"The Greatest Love of All" was one of the first songs to ever catch my attention and make me sit up and listen to the lyrics and the music. At a young age, Whitney's deliverance of this song and the message that it gives instilled something in me that I have held to for a long time. Yes, Whitney Houston has been apart of my consciousness. Her voice and her music are a part of my make up. What a presence in the world that will now be sorely missed.

RIP Whitney Houston: 1963-2012

What a tragic loss.... Read here, my previous post dedicated to Whitney Houston, a reflection on her career and her music.Now, I can't help but to compare her life and death to that of Judy Garland.