In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

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.

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.

The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree the definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.