YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT SORROW, BUT YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW MY NAME

Reeling from the loss of a pillar of the poetry and activist communities, today I am wishing that the death of Akilah Oliver’s son Oluchi McDonald, the graffiti artist “LINKS” (1982-2003), in a beleaguered Los Angeles hospital will not have been in vain. Temporarily uninsured, black, male, and therefore invisible, he was neglected and died [...]

Feb 25, 2011 | Comments Off