Obama won the presidency. The night was revelatory, ecstatic, transformative, amazing, unbelievable said the people I talked to that night, ...

Dear Split This Rockers (hereafter to be designated as victors): When the news came across the wires that Senator Barack Obama had been...

After eight years of misery and darkness—change! The Bushes are moving out and none too soon. After a tremendous campaign—Obama won by a...

“’Me or him’ that’s how war starts. But it ends in an awkward stance: ‘Me and him’” --from A State of Seige, translated by Fady Joudah, 2002...

In Toni Cade Bambara'a 1980 novel The Salt Eaters , the healer Minnie Ransom asks Velma Henry, "Are you sure, sweetheart, that you ...

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Carolyn Forché Originally uploaded by Split This Rock Poetry Festival Carolyn Forché reads on Saturday night at the festival. Photo by Jill...