Thousands demonstrate in Minnesota and across US to protest ICE Toni Morrison wrote, “ "There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language." Language, really, is all I have now, the only avenue for heartbreak, for rage, and, in the end, for hope.   I lived in Minneapolis for ten years, the most remarkable years of my life. It was there that I met a woman who saw something in me that I could never have seen in myself,...

…….And now for the real reason, one which becomes more and more apparent every day. Especially during a time when we’re surrounded by...

When she was a young girl Rosie Carter loved to dance. Her small body would sway to the slightest hint of music – a bird’s song, or the...