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  1. Book Review: Stepmotherland by Darrel Alejandro Holnes


    Around the World for a Good Book selection for: Panama

    Author: Darrel Alejandro Holnes
    Title: Stepmotherland: Poems
    Publication Info: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, [2022]
    Summary/Review:

    This collection of contemporary poetry touches on identity, particularly in Holnes’ experience as a Panamanian, an immigrant to the United States, a Black man, and a gay man.  Poems address political issues directly such as the 1989 US invasion of Panama, but also sensuality ranging from food to sex.  Poems also reflect on other works of art such as Michelangelo’s Pietà, Sleep by Kehinde Wiley,  Arroz Con Pollo by Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as inspiration from the likes of Shakira, Naomi Campbell, and Rihanna.

    Rating: ****

    #AroundTheWorldForAGoodBook #BlackAmericans #BookReviews #Books #Immigrants #LGBTQ #Panama #Poetry
  2. Book Review: Stepmotherland by Darrel Alejandro Holnes


    Around the World for a Good Book selection for: Panama

    Author: Darrel Alejandro Holnes
    Title: Stepmotherland: Poems
    Publication Info: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, [2022]
    Summary/Review:

    This collection of contemporary poetry touches on identity, particularly in Holnes’ experience as a Panamanian, an immigrant to the United States, a Black man, and a gay man.  Poems address political issues directly such as the 1989 US invasion of Panama, but also sensuality ranging from food to sex.  Poems also reflect on other works of art such as Michelangelo’s Pietà, Sleep by Kehinde Wiley,  Arroz Con Pollo by Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as inspiration from the likes of Shakira, Naomi Campbell, and Rihanna.

    Rating: ****

    #AroundTheWorldForAGoodBook #BlackAmericans #BookReviews #Books #Immigrants #LGBTQ #Panama #Poetry
  3. Book Review: Stepmotherland by Darrel Alejandro Holnes


    Around the World for a Good Book selection for: Panama

    Author: Darrel Alejandro Holnes
    Title: Stepmotherland: Poems
    Publication Info: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, [2022]
    Summary/Review:

    This collection of contemporary poetry touches on identity, particularly in Holnes’ experience as a Panamanian, an immigrant to the United States, a Black man, and a gay man.  Poems address political issues directly such as the 1989 US invasion of Panama, but also sensuality ranging from food to sex.  Poems also reflect on other works of art such as Michelangelo’s Pietà, Sleep by Kehinde Wiley,  Arroz Con Pollo by Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as inspiration from the likes of Shakira, Naomi Campbell, and Rihanna.

    Rating: ****

    #AroundTheWorldForAGoodBook #BlackAmericans #BookReviews #Books #Immigrants #LGBTQ #Panama #Poetry
  4. Book Review: Stepmotherland by Darrel Alejandro Holnes


    Around the World for a Good Book selection for: Panama

    Author: Darrel Alejandro Holnes
    Title: Stepmotherland: Poems
    Publication Info: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, [2022]
    Summary/Review:

    This collection of contemporary poetry touches on identity, particularly in Holnes’ experience as a Panamanian, an immigrant to the United States, a Black man, and a gay man.  Poems address political issues directly such as the 1989 US invasion of Panama, but also sensuality ranging from food to sex.  Poems also reflect on other works of art such as Michelangelo’s Pietà, Sleep by Kehinde Wiley,  Arroz Con Pollo by Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as inspiration from the likes of Shakira, Naomi Campbell, and Rihanna.

    Rating: ****

    #AroundTheWorldForAGoodBook #BlackAmericans #BookReviews #Books #Immigrants #LGBTQ #Panama #Poetry
  5. Book Review: Stepmotherland by Darrel Alejandro Holnes


    Around the World for a Good Book selection for: Panama

    Author: Darrel Alejandro Holnes
    Title: Stepmotherland: Poems
    Publication Info: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, [2022]
    Summary/Review:

    This collection of contemporary poetry touches on identity, particularly in Holnes’ experience as a Panamanian, an immigrant to the United States, a Black man, and a gay man.  Poems address political issues directly such as the 1989 US invasion of Panama, but also sensuality ranging from food to sex.  Poems also reflect on other works of art such as Michelangelo’s Pietà, Sleep by Kehinde Wiley,  Arroz Con Pollo by Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as inspiration from the likes of Shakira, Naomi Campbell, and Rihanna.

    Rating: ****

    #AroundTheWorldForAGoodBook #BlackAmericans #BookReviews #Books #Immigrants #LGBTQ #Panama #Poetry
  6. ““The struggle means to me… not just that we would get the boot off our necks, but that we would destroy the boot.

    If you want to say that the endpoint of our dream, of our struggle is to simply get us into positions of power, to integrate us into the machine and not to change the machine, then don't talk about Fannie Lou Hamer. Don't talk about Martin Luther King.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

    #CivilRightsMovement #BlackAmericans #MartinLutherKing

  7. ““The struggle means to me… not just that we would get the boot off our necks, but that we would destroy the boot.

    If you want to say that the endpoint of our dream, of our struggle is to simply get us into positions of power, to integrate us into the machine and not to change the machine, then don't talk about Fannie Lou Hamer. Don't talk about Martin Luther King.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

    #CivilRightsMovement #BlackAmericans #MartinLutherKing

  8. ““The struggle means to me… not just that we would get the boot off our necks, but that we would destroy the boot.

    If you want to say that the endpoint of our dream, of our struggle is to simply get us into positions of power, to integrate us into the machine and not to change the machine, then don't talk about Fannie Lou Hamer. Don't talk about Martin Luther King.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

    #CivilRightsMovement #BlackAmericans #MartinLutherKing

  9. ““The struggle means to me… not just that we would get the boot off our necks, but that we would destroy the boot.

    If you want to say that the endpoint of our dream, of our struggle is to simply get us into positions of power, to integrate us into the machine and not to change the machine, then don't talk about Fannie Lou Hamer. Don't talk about Martin Luther King.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

    #CivilRightsMovement #BlackAmericans #MartinLutherKing

  10. ““The struggle means to me… not just that we would get the boot off our necks, but that we would destroy the boot.

    If you want to say that the endpoint of our dream, of our struggle is to simply get us into positions of power, to integrate us into the machine and not to change the machine, then don't talk about Fannie Lou Hamer. Don't talk about Martin Luther King.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

    #CivilRightsMovement #BlackAmericans #MartinLutherKing

  11. Then, he says, the prospect of a general strike by workers upset by their declining share of national wealth and watching the profits from their ...

    CHICAGO —Ever since his election as United Auto Workers president, Shawn Fain has been urging the labor movement to align all expiring union contracts for the same day: May Day 2028.#politics #us #africanamericans #african-americanhistory #blackamericans #blackworkers #elections2026 #history #labormovement #laborpower #naacp
    General Strike not new, enslaved people led one during Civil War

  12. Then, he says, the prospect of a general strike by workers upset by their declining share of national wealth and watching the profits from their ...

    CHICAGO —Ever since his election as United Auto Workers president, Shawn Fain has been urging the labor movement to align all expiring union contracts for the same day: May Day 2028.#politics #us #africanamericans #african-americanhistory #blackamericans #blackworkers #elections2026 #history #labormovement #laborpower #naacp
    General Strike not new, enslaved people led one during Civil War

  13. Then, he says, the prospect of a general strike by workers upset by their declining share of national wealth and watching the profits from their ...

    CHICAGO —Ever since his election as United Auto Workers president, Shawn Fain has been urging the labor movement to align all expiring union contracts for the same day: May Day 2028.#politics #us #africanamericans #african-americanhistory #blackamericans #blackworkers #elections2026 #history #labormovement #laborpower #naacp
    General Strike not new, enslaved people led one during Civil War

  14. Then, he says, the prospect of a general strike by workers upset by their declining share of national wealth and watching the profits from their ...

    CHICAGO —Ever since his election as United Auto Workers president, Shawn Fain has been urging the labor movement to align all expiring union contracts for the same day: May Day 2028.#politics #us #africanamericans #african-americanhistory #blackamericans #blackworkers #elections2026 #history #labormovement #laborpower #naacp
    General Strike not new, enslaved people led one during Civil War

  15. the Druski parody about #Blackbritish actors taking jobs away from #BlackAmericans. He deflects saying that his success allowed him to bring many African Americans on board; but a Black American with the same success would have done the same. He also judges those

    (2/5)

  16. the Druski parody about #Blackbritish actors taking jobs away from #BlackAmericans. He deflects saying that his success allowed him to bring many African Americans on board; but a Black American with the same success would have done the same. He also judges those

    (2/5)

  17. the Druski parody about #Blackbritish actors taking jobs away from #BlackAmericans. He deflects saying that his success allowed him to bring many African Americans on board; but a Black American with the same success would have done the same. He also judges those

    (2/5)

  18. the Druski parody about #Blackbritish actors taking jobs away from #BlackAmericans. He deflects saying that his success allowed him to bring many African Americans on board; but a Black American with the same success would have done the same. He also judges those

    (2/5)

  19. the Druski parody about #Blackbritish actors taking jobs away from #BlackAmericans. He deflects saying that his success allowed him to bring many African Americans on board; but a Black American with the same success would have done the same. He also judges those

    (2/5)

  20. After Watching My Sister Move To Germany To Escape The US, I No Longer See A Future In America. Here’s Why.

    “She’s moving where!?” my younger sister and I gasped when we first found out that our older sister…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #BlackAmericans #TatyannahKing #TheKingsisters #united-states #youngersister
    europesays.com/germany/3156/

  21. After Watching My Sister Move To Germany To Escape The US, I No Longer See A Future In America. Here’s Why.

    “She’s moving where!?” my younger sister and I gasped when we first found out that our older sister…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #BlackAmericans #TatyannahKing #TheKingsisters #united-states #youngersister
    europesays.com/germany/2503/

  22. After Watching My Sister Move To Germany To Escape The US, I No Longer See A Future In America. Here’s Why.

    “She’s moving where!?” my younger sister and I gasped when we first found out that our older sister…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #BlackAmericans #TatyannahKing #TheKingsisters #united-states #youngersister
    europesays.com/germany/2499/

  23. #USA , #Israel & #Argentina United in #UN To Defend #Slavery against being voted a ‘Crime Against Humanity’

    US Ambassador in #UnitedNations staunchly denounced measure and defended President Drumpf who he said "has done more for #BlackAmericans than any other president”

    nytimes.com/2026/03/25/world/a #MyCountryTisOfThee

  24. #USA , #Israel & #Argentina United in #UN To Defend #Slavery against being voted a ‘Crime Against Humanity’

    US Ambassador in #UnitedNations staunchly denounced measure and defended President Drumpf who he said "has done more for #BlackAmericans than any other president”

    nytimes.com/2026/03/25/world/a #MyCountryTisOfThee

  25. #USA , #Israel & #Argentina United in #UN To Defend #Slavery against being voted a ‘Crime Against Humanity’

    US Ambassador in #UnitedNations staunchly denounced measure and defended President Drumpf who he said "has done more for #BlackAmericans than any other president”

    nytimes.com/2026/03/25/world/a #MyCountryTisOfThee

  26. #USA , #Israel & #Argentina United in #UN To Defend #Slavery against being voted a ‘Crime Against Humanity’

    US Ambassador in #UnitedNations staunchly denounced measure and defended President Drumpf who he said "has done more for #BlackAmericans than any other president”

    nytimes.com/2026/03/25/world/a #MyCountryTisOfThee

  27. Black Seniors Without Birth Records Could Be Disenfranchised by SAVE America Act

    One-fifth of Black Americans born in 1939 and 1940 were never issued birth certificates, according to one estimate.

    murica.website/2026/03/black-s

  28. "I can't breathe" is a #slogan of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the #lastWords of #EricGarner, who was killed in 2014 after being put in a #chokehold by a #NewYorkCityPolice officer. A number of other #BlackAmericans, such as #JavierAmbler, #ManuelEllis, #ElijahMcClain, and #GeorgeFloyd, have said the same phrase prior to dying during similar #lawenforcement encounters. According to a 2020 report by #TheNewYorkTimes.
    youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY

  29. "I can't breathe" is a #slogan of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the #lastWords of #EricGarner, who was killed in 2014 after being put in a #chokehold by a #NewYorkCityPolice officer. A number of other #BlackAmericans, such as #JavierAmbler, #ManuelEllis, #ElijahMcClain, and #GeorgeFloyd, have said the same phrase prior to dying during similar #lawenforcement encounters. According to a 2020 report by #TheNewYorkTimes.
    youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY

  30. "I can't breathe" is a #slogan of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the #lastWords of #EricGarner, who was killed in 2014 after being put in a #chokehold by a #NewYorkCityPolice officer. A number of other #BlackAmericans, such as #JavierAmbler, #ManuelEllis, #ElijahMcClain, and #GeorgeFloyd, have said the same phrase prior to dying during similar #lawenforcement encounters. According to a 2020 report by #TheNewYorkTimes.
    youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY

  31. "I can't breathe" is a #slogan of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the #lastWords of #EricGarner, who was killed in 2014 after being put in a #chokehold by a #NewYorkCityPolice officer. A number of other #BlackAmericans, such as #JavierAmbler, #ManuelEllis, #ElijahMcClain, and #GeorgeFloyd, have said the same phrase prior to dying during similar #lawenforcement encounters. According to a 2020 report by #TheNewYorkTimes.
    youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY