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Exhuming the Ratchet before it’s Buried

January 7, 2013
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Exhuming the Ratchet before it’s Buried

By Heidi R. Lewis Recently, social media was set ablaze after Oxygen revealed it was developing a reality TV show featuring rapper Shawty Lo (real name Carlos Walker) entitled, All My Babies’ Mamas.  Yup, all 11 of them.  Or is it 10?  In any case, if you were able to watch the preview before it...
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Arts & Culture

  • Featured Poet: Aditi Raorao self def

    By Aditi Rao Dear Mr. Yadav, I too am an Indian Woman   “Referring to the recent ‘Slut Walk’ held in the Capital, Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav said we had naked women walking down the streets with tattoos on their cheeks, whereas Indian women did not even look up while [...]

  • A is for Asylum12

    Assata do not dry like dissipated plums under castro’s bronzing sun you mural fortress you live memorial spirited artifice rouged sea salt that marinates america’s wound   Assata you like stripped bone road unaware of which exit is free birth  brown coagulated rhythm redefined reborn rumba queen Assata dusk breath [...]

  • “Affirmation” by Assata Shakur945073_361887813911202_1619329964_n

    “Affirmation” by Assata Shakur* ___ I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine. In windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs. And i believe that seeds grow into sprouts. And sprouts grow into trees. I believe in the magic [...]