Check out my speech for Ainsworth United Church of Christ’s Black History Celebration this past Sunday. Topics include the importance of using Black History as a roadmap for current political issues, the legacies of people like my cousin Septima Poinsette Clark, the counter story to Ronald Reagan worship, gentrification in Portland and more. Watch the …
As a bonus to “To Catch a Set Up” I wanted to share my favorite piece of “fan” mail I’ve ever received. If you don’t like my writing you’ll love this: “Mr. Poinsette, You are the most abysmally ignorant and racist black charlatan I’ve ever encountered in Oregon! You embrace false Afrocentric “history” while dismissing …
I’m not a programmer so my vision of a Black Power video game where you can free Mumia or save Fred Hampton won’t be happening soon. Neither will my Wii accessible “Martin Luther King’s Marcher”. My best hope for a black video game that doesn’t primarily involve sports or music will most likely come whenever …