Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.