I Rebel Storyteller.
I got to be a Rebel Storyteller. ✊🏿✍🏿 I want you, the reader, to be an active participant in creating your own stories rather than a passive recipient of mine....
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The Gullah War ⁉️🤷🏿♂️
I started reading this book; ‘The Legacy of Ibo Landing: Gullah roots of African American Culture’ My Ancestry comes out of Gullah and South Carolina territory. One of my very...
Did You Have A Favorite Tree?🌳
I was bored. “Georgie, why don’t you go to the library and while you are there get a book for me.” Half-heartedly, I took my mother’s advice. Next decision; bike...
“Guided by Anothor Ancestor”
Art Thomas (1934 - 2026) was there for me, early on, during the Afrigeneas Era (IYDK, NYK), helping me develop as a family Historian and a better researcher. With much...
Imagine! 🌍️🇨🇻⚽️🏆️
… a sporting event that can bring a small African island country together is a good thing. Imagine if a sporting event could bring nations and continents together. Imagine humans...
Photography’s Soul
“ image lives in light visualize the shadows think like a haiku” Asé Peace & Blessings, "Guided by the Ancestors"
Stories That Humanize Africa
I want to read and write stories that Humanize Africa. If you know some, please share them with me. There can never be too many of such stories. You can...
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Ways of Telling, Ways of Seeing 🌍️
Toni Morrison put herself in the service of her people, as few writers have ever been called upon to do, and she claimed it as a privilege. _ Zadie Smith, August...
We were Wrong, Complicit, and We are Sorry.
Pope Leo issued a historic apology for the institutional church's complicity in slavery and colonial violence. His exact words, “"It is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the...
Sonny ‘Newk’ Rollins
Sonny Rollins took flight. I always felt good around his music. His aura of intensity with integrity. On this occasion, I’m listening to his music now. Newk’s Time, Saxophone Colossus,...
Linux Update & Another Thing
The Linux apps I'm currently using are 'Fastmail' for email, 'RapidRaw' for photo editing, 'LibreOffice' for documents and slides, and 'Okular' for PDFs and E-Books. I only pay for one....
Tell IT !
Write our words. Have our conversation. Let’s Jam without algorithms. Photos can tell stories. In Africa, everyone has a camera in their smartphones and iPads. Africans can tell stories that...
Haiku - Looking East
looking east a long shadow then someone spoke … An artist drew, on our boardwalk, a turtle choking on a plastic straw. Louder than words. Plastics in the ocean is...
Social Media as the 8th Continent 😱
I read that somewhere. That would certainly be the most populous and diverse continent of them all. How would you begin describing it? What would be its natural resources? What...
Angst
angst lose confidence gain madness one way out climb up the stairs to heaven turn around and it's steps down to hell Stories are what drive my photographs. The back...
Communities are Unique
I'm 'all in' on the idea of Community. Whether you are a meat-eater or a vegan; there's a Community for you. Be a Humanitarian and let Communities be No Kings,...
The U.N. - Calling a thing - a thing
To the corner and across the street from us is the ‘Victoria’; a building whose top floor is occupied by the United Nations. We walk past it everyday; thankful for...
One Leg Up
I think I was being sneaky taking this photo. I saw the man approaching and I pretended that I was photographing the horizon. I saw something different when I viewed...
Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V
Just last week I was watching a guy doing a sketch of a tourist. The tourist didn't ask; he just did it and hoped the lady would pay for it....
No One Owns Email
“Unlike many other communication tools, email doesn’t belong to any one single company. It’s a decentralized technology based on open standards that is used by millions of servers around the...
Baba Bernard Lafayette; 1940 - 2026
I am a past president of the NAACP Santa Fe, New Mexico branch. It was there when I had a conversation with Baba Bernard Lafayette. We were speaking at an...
Remember, Recall & Recovery
“"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." _ Robert Pirsig; Zen & the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance” A recurring...
Walk Tall, Walk Tall, Walk Tall!
Reverand Jesse L Jackson put a defintion on the 1970's for me. “" ... It is rough and tough in this Ghetto. A lot of funny stuff going down. But...
Douglass Shrugged
… at least that’s what I think. He had to guess at his birth date. His mother always called him her ‘Valentine’. February 14, 1818. He shrugged when he escaped...