/peh-TO-lah/ (EPAP post)

May 1, 2019, 7:30-9pm Emerson Paramount Center, Robert J. Orchard Stage /peh-LO-tah/ a futbol framed freedom suite: Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Living Word Project I saw /peh-TO-lah/ Wednesday night at the Emerson Paramount Orchard Stage. This “freedom suite” looks at black joy and freedom through the lens of soccer - “the official sport of this spinning...

Tyranny of Theives

For my post on the Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown I decided to focus on how Henry, even from a very young age, learned about and witnessed the performance and thievery of his master. He recounts that as a toddler his mother would sit him on her lap “and, pointing to the...