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Bryan Wilhite: Eulogy for My Mother

My mother passed away in the winter of 2016. For her funeral service, I wrote a poem for her. It is presented here for her memory. For mother’s day 2016, while my mother was suffering from dementia and could no longer recognize me, I wrote: “My mother’s l…

David Mandessi Diop: Aux Mystificateurs

Notre deuxième présentation de la poésie de David Mandessi Diop, suivant « Les Vautours, » est une collaboration avec Ousmane Sembène, le grand talent qui est souvent appelé « le père du film Africain. » La poésie de Diop est mélangée avec les images de S…

Kai Davis: The Kai Davis Collection (YouTube.com)

Full credit goes to Saundra Quarterman, following up her 12/2010 collection of young poets, with an insightful focus on one bright talent, Kai Davis. This description of Kai works well: “Kai is? a high school senior who is part of the Philly Youth Poetry …

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Ezrah Aharone: Nat Turner’s Mental and Military Motivations

Nate Parker’s movie The Birth of a Nation has revived the question: What caused Nat Turner’s 1831 uprising? Turner, first of all, was not a deranged misfit who acted outside of a historical context of previous African freedom fighters. Throughout slavery’…

MIKE D.: Unseen Interviews Collection

We, here in the kinté space, are taking selections directly from a Reel BlackTV YouTube playlist, celebrating the excellence of Philadelphia-based Reel BlackTV! We are highlighting the “Unseen Interviews” series, featuring Paul Mooney, Jody Watley, Nichel…

Public Broadcasting Service: Alive from Off Center Collection

My mother made sure that young Bryan Wilhite, me, was aware of public television—1970s public television. I took that seed and grew independently into strange programs in the authentically artsy 1980s like Alive from Off Center. Ever since the invention o…

Today’s Food: 2011–2014

This is a mid-century rollup of all of my ‘Today’s Food’ articles on the kintespace.com Blog. This is the second collection after the one from 2009. 2011/1/28: “Today’s Food: Freedom from Gluten will make the Girls Swoon”“When I first appeared on Facebook…

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crypto is digital money

…and it starts with a digital wallet—a crypto wallet which is likely deliberately confused with a digital wallet (e.g. Apple Pay, Venmo, etc.—see “14 Best Digital Wallets of 2024”). ## cold wallets 👛🧊 The “old-fashioned” way to get a crypto wallet is to…

Loser-Dad Home Economics

Let’s start with angsty teen cynicism and be partially correct when we say that mid-20th century home economics classes were scams to lure a new generation into grocery stores. By the way, previous versions of home economics educational programs were ways…

I do not want to write about this Netflix Cleopatra shit

Adele James as Cleopatra I do not want to write about this Netflix Cleopatra shit because it is a Bene Gesserit waste of time. This project makes me feel even more miserable because it appears to me how well-intending-but-irretrievably-indoctrinated youn…