Kenny, Get Your Gun, And Other Musings
NEVILLE MITCHELL, 2/8/2013, AMSTERDAM NEWSOn a recent evening, my 7-year-old asked if I knew what “metacognition” meant. I smiled, not because I did not know–truth is, I suspected what it…
ODE TO JACOB BLAKE
Daddy I’m 8 years old;old man, I’m 5 years old;yo old men: I’m 3 years old;these many fingers on one hand. America just shot our daddy at least 7 times…
I Can’t Sleep Anymore, Not Like I Use To
“It’s amazing why we keep loving this country and this country doesn’t love us back”. “We are the ones being hung; we are the ones being shot”. Doc Rivers’ timely…
For Those Who Like To Hood
If you took the time to remove your hood, you might have actually understood. You placed it on my head ostensibly to corral spit projectiles from my mouth. But then…
America’s Reservoir of Racism Runneth Over
In successive days three incidents punctuated America’s haltingly slow march to a just society.Last week Tuesday video of a white cop murdering Alton Sterling, an African American, wentviral. Sterling lay…
Tintinnabulation For Whom Sean Bells Toll
Published in the Black Star News on December 29th, 2006.Neville Mitchell, Esq. Photo credit: Gideon MannasehIt’s a few days shy of the New Year and 30 since the murder of…
