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Weekend Post

POETRY

Here Today...Gone Tomorrow

It is like a stampede
how the mind works
in the gathering of things
and there are footsteps everywhere
sounds of feet chattering in chaos
screeching sometimes
in the push and shove
jostling each other
in the city streets of Mumbai
slick tiny business sizzling
with tandori naan and goat curry
and Times Square mavericks
hiding their eyes from street vendors
now selling hot-dogs and sugar-cane juice
you can see them here too
in Nathan Phillips Square
drinking water-coconuts with straw
or balancing cups of Tim Horton’s coffee
heading in and out of nowhere
in transit to pan-handle rush hour
sometimes difficult to understand
if mobility means to peddle oneself
in ascent or decent in going places
this we know with certainty
you are here today
and you will be gone tomorrow
as long as memory does not
suffer senility syndrome.

Leonard Dabydeen

WEekend POst "Meeeee *"

by Melissa

My husband makes me feel pretty
on days when my mirror
is least complimentary,

he says, My,
you look winsome today
and I can't help but wonder
if all along
I've been hiding these pesky insecurities
on my face,
and he forged this lovely notion
on my behalf;
or I really am pretty,
in spite of imperfection

either way, it must be love,
right?

POdCAst

The harlem renaissance

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harlem reinassance ssc sound bite

Weekend *

This Week i went to my cousions house and threw a party. that party was like o.dee poppin.

Kelly Miller *

KELLY MILLER


Kelly Miller
in 1887, the first Black
mathematics graduate student

He Was Born: July 18, 1863 in Winnsboro, South Carolina.
Died December 29, 1939

Miller received his early education in one of the local primary schools established during Reconstruction and, based on the recommendation of a missionary (Reverend Willard Richardson) who recognized Miller's mathematical aptitude, Miller attended the Fairfield Institute in Winnsboro, South Carolina from 1878 to 1880. Awarded a scholarship to Howard University, he completed the Preparatory Department's three-year curriculum in Latin, Greek, and mathematics in two years (1880-1882), then attended the College Department at Howard from 1882 to 1886.
During the period from 1882 to 1886, while Miller attended the College Department at Howard University, he also worked as a clerk for the U.S. Pension Office for two years. Kelly Miller was appointed to the position in the Pension Office after taking the civil service examination a test prescribed by the Civil Service Act passed during the administration of President Grover Cleveland. Miller's greatest influence while at Howard University where his professors of Latin (James Monroe Gregory) and History (Howard president William Weston Patton, who also taught philosophy and conducted weekly vesper services required of all students). He received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from Howard University in 1886. Miller continued to work at the Pension Office after graduation in 1886. He also studied advanced mathematics (1886-1887) with Captain Edgar Frisby, an English mathematician at the U.S. Naval Observatory. Frisby's chief at the observatory, Simon Newcomb, who was also a professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, and who recommended Miller for admission to Hopkins University President Daniel Coit Gilman.

Kelly Miller sound bite

Over The Weekend *

Over the weekend .. i went by my cousions house and chilled .