Joy?
For some, joy is the most elusive. Even after a half-century or more, it’s shown its face once or thrice? I think about when did I really experienced joy.
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Essays
Brooklyn 2020
If you need to get some cutlery sharpened, go down to the Grinding Company of America, across the Vietnam Veterans Bridge on Annabel Street in Brooklyn. The Grinding Company of America used to be located across the street from Camden Yards for around a century before the baseball stadium was built, convenient to all the produce, meat and fish wholesalers that were located there.
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Warnings Against Slavery
Image by WikiImages from Pixabay ‘The utter impossibility of any one’s soul feeling itself inferior to another’ Six years ago
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Death of the Artistic Girl in the Age of (In)tolerance
Feature photo: Deposit photos. Photo by Viktoriia Tuzenko Censorship is never a girl’s friend. It never has been historically. Let’s
Read moreBlack Women and Political Activism in America
The “She the People Presidential Forum” felt like a seminal moment for women of color in politics. Black women, in
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The Widow Bixby: Figuring out the legacy of the Civil War’s most famous mother
Lydia Bixby and Abraham Lincoln Introduction Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. Dear Madam, I have been shown in the
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A New Reading of World War I American Literature
One hundred years after U.S. involvement in World War I, it is time to revisit our literature that came out
Read moreThe Koran, Edgar Allan Poe and Science
Edgar Allan Poe has a reputation for mockery and secrecy. He loved to challenge his readers with riddles, hoaxes, and
Read moreEssay on Literature is the Mirror of Society
Since the dawn of man, the art of storytelling was utilized to pass on critically deemed information about society, life,
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Maryland Confederate war hero among 500 ‘rebels’ buried in Brooklyn and the Bronx
Confederate and Union graves in the “Old Field” of Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. (Kevin C. Fitzpatrick) I
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