Sunday Snippets: Nikki Giovanni

We lost a beautiful amazing soul this week. I have been reading her work for many years and even included her poem, Resignation, when I got married. It sucks so much that she's gone.

Women Are Getting Sterilized After Donald Trump's Victory: 'Only Option'

‘Enshittification’ Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year

I'm 45 And I Look My Age

On Having Expectations – Even When Doing Things for Free

What One Mass Rape Case Shows about the Depth of Rape Culture

      Dominique Pelicot now bemoans the way the trial has destroyed his life and seeks forgiveness from his family. When asked by his defense lawyers about the possibility of winning back his wife, he said: “It is important to have hope,” and again emphasized his own trauma.

America’s Sickness

The year of hetero discontent

Supreme Court term-limits amendment proposed by Sens. Manchin, Welch

Some good climate news, for once: Md. leads in carbon emissions reductions

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project

Archaeologists Work with Indigenous Peoples, Department of Natural Resources to Uncover History at Chapel Point State Park

Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81

Sunday Snippets: Stand with Palestine

I don't pretend to know every nuance of the Israel-Palestine fight, but Palestinians deserve the right to life and their houses and clean water.

40 Years Ago, Poet Lucille Clifton Lost Her House. This Year, Her Children Bought It Back.

The pandemic shaped my family for generations. Not COVID — the 1918 flu

The Party Whose Success Is a Problem

Maryland Governor Grants Posthumous Pardons To 34 Black Lynching Victims

Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership

Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight

‘I regret having children’

Mobile Health Clinics Could Revolutionize Reproductive Care in the South

Why Are Boomer Parents Always Withholding Important Family News?

The latest Israel-Palestine crisis isn't a 'real estate dispute.' It's ethnic cleansing.

Wyoming stands up for coal with threat to sue states that refuse to buy it

‘It’s like the embers in a barbecue pit.’ Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl

Windows on the world: pandemic poems by Simon Armitage, Hollie McNish, Kae Tempest and more

The minimalist awakening: how it became ‘in’ to buy less

Illinois parents arrested and jailed for kids missing school How the fuck does this help anyone?