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Ka’Ba
By Amiri Baraka(Leroi Jones)

A closed window looks down on a dirty courtyard, and black people call across or scream across or walk across defying physics in the stream of their will.

Our world is full of sound. Our world is more lovely than anyone’s tho we suffer, and kill each other and sometimes fail to walk the air.

We are… Read more

7,867 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Badges: Abibitumi Mbôngi

Rank: Onímẹ́rindínlógún

A Different Image
by Dudley Randall

The age
requires this task:
create
a different image;
re-animate
the mask.

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear.
Replace
the leer
of the minstrel’s burnt-cork face
with a proud, serene
and classic bronze of Benin.

From The Black Poets

Interpretation: Reinvent ourstory with a new… Read more