Category Archives: freedom

Lorraine Hotel Fifty-Three Years Ago

January 16, 2023 – 6:08 am

In April 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to address a gathering at the Masonic Temple. The city’s black sanitation workers had walked off the job to protest working condition and low wages. The speech keynoted by the phrase ‘I’ve been to the mountaintop.” That night King stayed at the Lorraine Hotel with […]

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SAY IT LOUD, I’M BAD AND I’M PROUD

January 16, 2023 – 5:56 am

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great orator. His speech I HAVE A DREAM is recognized as a masterpiece of the spoken word. I know parts of it by heart. Another voice for Civil Rights was the legendary James Brown. His songs united blacks and whites, but the Godfather of Soul sang about pride and […]

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Sojourner Truth State Park

February 3, 2021 – 10:14 pm

Donald J Trump purchased 436-acres of wetlands in the 1990s for $2 million. He hoped to develop a golf course, telling then-Governor Pataki, “”I hope that these 436 acres of property will turn into one of the most beautiful parks anywhere in the world.ā€¯ Westchester and Putnam County rejected his plans and refused to allow […]

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Silence On Cellblock # 9

December 29, 2020 – 7:49 pm

When I left the USA for Africa in February 2020 over 80,000 prisoners were incarcerated in solitary confinement in US prisons, which equals the entire penal population of the UK. The practice was first introduced in the Eastern State Penitentiary in 1830. The punitive toll on inmates had been touted by prison officials as the […]

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The Ghost Town Of Anarchy

October 26, 2020 – 2:08 pm

During the last debate Donald Trump called New York City a ghost town. Having lived here in the 1970s I refuted the pseudo-POTUS. The Big Orange doesn’t know shit from Shinola. I admit the city blacked out in 1977. I had a good time that night, drinking with my gay friends and trying to smash […]

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