An Appreciation of Lucille Clifton

16th
Feb. × ’10
By Raquel Wilson

The Root's Hollis Robbins shows love for poet Lucille Clifton, former Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland (1979-1985), who died on Saturday, February 13, 2010, in Baltimore.

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Quote #16: Frantz Fanon

22nd
Jan. × ’10
By Raquel Wilson

"He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me."

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Covering Haiti: When the Media Is the Disaster

22nd
Jan. × ’10
By Raquel Wilson

Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell takes a look at the media's coverage of the Haiti's January earthquake.

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Gender, Power and International Development

21st
Jan. × ’10
By Raquel Wilson

Assignments from MIT's Open Courseware's Gender, Power and International Development course.

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The words don’t fit

19th
Jan. × ’10
By Raquel Wilson

I write & then I don't write. I write & then I don't write. I have so many unfinished thoughts occupying beautifully bound journals & files upon files on my computer.

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for now I stay hidden in my abbayah

13th
Sep. × ’09
By Raquel Wilson

I woke this morning missing my crush and longing to read the journal of my spiritual sister.

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Quote #15

4th
Jul. × ’09
By Raquel Wilson

"For shame! For shame! You dare to cry out Liberty, when you hold us in places against our will, driving us from place to place as if we were beasts." — Sarah Winnemucca, author and first Native American woman known to secure a copyright and to publish in the English language

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