A Word on "Scholar Activism" from Eagle Owl @ Wesley Willis Herald

"Our passion for categorization, life neatly fitted into pegs, has led to an unforeseen, paradoxical distress; confusion, a breakdown of meaning. Those categories which were meant to define and control the world for us have boomeranged us into chaos; in which limbo we whirl, clutching the straws of our definitions."

-James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

[Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons]

Happy 2015! We made it. Now it's time to focus.

Happy Birthday Jerry Garcia!

                          Photo by Annie Leibovitz

           Wishing everyone a happy and safe 4th of July!

                    American Salute by Shadeauxe on Flickr

Ode to Maya Angelou: "Good Mourning Maya"

Good Mourning Maya

By Travis L. Williams

Mother Angelou

Radiant being

Sacred window to elsewhere

To beauty unseen

Words that touch

Words that save

Have you any idea

How much you gave?

Beautiful Blackness

Proud without shame

Healer of the People

Shaman and Sage

I know you are here

Breathing with me now

Always and forever

A Rainbow in the Clouds

© Travis L. Williams 2014

The Wesley Willis Herald™

Contact: TravisWPhD@gmail.com

Visualizing Slavery in Virginia

Interesting NYT Opinionator piece by Susan Schulten featuring interactive historical maps depicting the human geography of slavery in Virginia, based on the 1860 Census.