Whether reciting poetry at virtual slams, crafting and performing original songs and plays, offering spiritual reflections like those shared here, dancing or telling stories from her remarkable life, her stories bring light and life to unexpected corners of our shared human experience.
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Community residents and artists came together at Seattle’s historic Liberty Bank Building to attend the collaborative and immersive “P3: The Painting & Poetry Project 2022” event, orchestrated by poet, award-winning author and Seattle native, Lora-Ellen McKinney.
Read MoreThe same procedure used to abort pregnancy is the same one used to save my life — again and again
Read MoreJoin P3, a unique, immersive and interactive experience at the intersection of varied forms of artistic expression.
Read MoreThe amazing Xavier de Sousa Briggs and I have a new viewpoint essay out, "Impunity is a Kill Switch for Racial Progress," in The Emancipator.
Read MoreFrom October through December 2021, Lora-Ellen McKinney‘s poetry and a portrait of her were on display at the Lucy Gentry Gallery in Olympia, Washington.
Read MoreIn our lives, there are days that are especially memorable. One of mine was experienced with a childhood friend who had been a member of my grandfather’s church in Cleveland, Ohio.
Read MoreEpisode One: In the first five minutes of the first episode of the Netflix Original Series coming-of-age dramedy On My Block, four friends—all incredibly smart, witty, and eloquent high school students of color—use their big brains in an unexpected way.
Read MoreA woman, short in stature, stands in the doorway to her home. She waves me toward the entry. “Come on in,” is my invitation to follow her into a living room warmed by shards of wintry sunshine on mustard yellow walls encasing furnishings in shades of deep red and purple.
Read MoreShe had just seen the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Bernadette Peters was the musical guest. She sang a clever song about masturbation.
Read More"It was one of those surreal things, like seeing a UFO. When you are a person who already thought that maybe you should be dead because life was so bad to you, I thought this could be a premonition."
Read MoreToday I got a notice from one of the online family tree sites. It, for the third or fourth time, let me know that a good friend was one of my missing family members.
Read MoreIt was unimaginable until recently that any president would start an unprovoked war. We are currently engaged in a war for no politically viable reason, attacking people who did not attack us. We've been fighting that war for 10 years, sacrificing the lives of our youth and those of many innocent Afghans civilians for 10 years.
Read MoreIt was beyond our wildest imaginings that a presidential candidate would boast of the benefits of separating church and state, and state succinctly that multicultural America must be celebrated as a Christian nation.
Read MoreThis animosity has been a poor model for our children, shows a limited understanding of democracy (democracy demands that once you lose an argument, you give it up to the majority), has frightened our lenders and international partners and has already impacted the financial markets.
Read MoreMy body is a quickly changing machine. Kind of a magnificent one in many ways, but changing too fast for my liking.
Read MorePresident Obama just spoke to the nation about the debt ceiling and asked us each to write to our Congress persons to support a balanced approach to raising it.
Read MoreI am just beginning to read Patti Smith's Just Kids, the romantic, lyrical story of her great romance and creative connection with Robert Mapplethorpe in the days before either became famous.
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