Tag: community
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The Poem Is Still Unfinished
The universe is a poemEven the language tells us the universe is a poemUni means one; verse means poemThe entire universe is a poem So what does that make us? We’re lines in this poemWe’re metaphors and similes in this poem of the universeAnd all of these lines engaging with each otherContrasting each otherComplimenting each…
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Charles Brantley Aycock: A Monumental Lie
To make a point, I’ve tweaked one line from the glowing write-up Charles Brantley Aycock received at The Architect Of The Capitol site, which proudly displays his memorial bronze, to read: Charles Brantley Aycock was born on November 1, 1859, on a farm near Fremont in Wayne County, North Carolina. Though his father died when…
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The Greensboro Massacre On Steroids
Exactly eighty-one years before the mess of 11/3/1979, a coalition of white leaders and white supremacists took to the streets in Wilmington, North Carolina, killing over a hundred African-Americans in the process of performing a coup d’etat. The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 was tragic on three distinct levels: A group of white political and…
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Should Link Love Pay The Rent?
Citizen media is an authentic media. The amateur (Etymology: French, from Latin amator lover, from amare to love) doesn’t create out of a responsibility to a deadline or a paycheck; the amateur creates out of a love for the process, the output, the feedback, the very notion of creativity itself. And in this new world…
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When Graffiti Saves Lives
Figures are power-washed out of the muck that builds up beneath our feet in order to raise awareness of power plant pollution in Chicago. (via blakkbyrd)
Sean Patrick Coon 