ASSATA (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Every little girl
Should know her name,
From the bowels of
Repression and calamity she came.
Wrung poetic lyrics
Of love from raw pain,
From a system designed to break
She remained untamed.
Gave … Read the rest
WINNIE (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
When I exalt the name Mandela,
I’m not invoking the fella.
Compared to her weight in gold,
Nelson couldn’t hold.
A single penny,
Yes, I’m speaking of Winnie.
The heart and guts of the … Read the rest
RED WHITE & BLUE (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Do the victims of Amerika realize,
What this rag’s colors symbolize?
Red is for the blood
That we’ve shed,
Blue is for the injuries
And bodies dead.
White is for the … Read the rest
FORGOTTEN YOUNG (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
There was a time when,
We didn’t produce blind men.
Because the elders taught,
The youth the things they ought.
To know and grow from,
The scars we earned when young.
Not today … Read the rest
RACIST HOLLYWOOD (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
We’ve forgotten that Hollywood began
By promoting the Ku Klux Klan.
Its first blockbuster presentation,
The film The Birth of a Nation.
That dehumanized Black men,
Portraying them as all having a plan.… Read the rest
“Yo my dude
“what’s up with you?
“Looks like you got
“something to do.”
I do and its got
everything,
To do with
trying to bring.
You on board
with this movement right here,
But it takes getting
over what … Read the rest
MLK (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
From the outset
a word about MLK,
He was NOT assassinated
by James Earl Ray.
If you investigate
you will find,
The King family won a lawsuit
back in ’99.
Where they sued Lloyd … Read the rest
LITTLE PEOPLE (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Eyes of wonder
taking everything in,
Breakfast dribbling
down your chin.
Tiny fingers grasp
everything in reach,
The world your classroom
eager to teach.
That smile of yours
had me duped,
You weren’t … Read the rest
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT/TORTURE (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
I spent over 20 years
in the hole,
Watching humans
lose their souls.
Into sheer madness
many descended,
At their own hands
many lives ended.
It’s not as though
officials don’t know,
The … Read the rest
