The Last Poets: the hip-hop forefathers who gave black America its voice
It is half a century since the Last Poets stood in Harlem, uttered their first words in public, and created the blueprint for hip-hop. At...
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Jay Murdock
- Feb 4, 2017
- 2 min
Langston Hughes’ Harlem Home Is Officially For The People
A non-profit has reclaimed the space where the poet once lived. By Rahel Gebreyes  / Editor, HuffPost / 02/03/2017 04:44 pm ET | Updated...
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Jay Murdock
- Feb 14, 2012
- 1 min
While You Were Sleeping – Happy Valentine’s Day!
The lights of the city streets softly illuminated the room. You lay there sleeping just moments after we had made love for the very first...
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Jay Murdock
- Aug 27, 2011
- 4 min
Kids Count: Tallying the High Costs of the Economy for Children
Marian Wright Edelman – President, Children’s Defense Fund Posted: 8/26/11 04:28 PM ET “I have the audacity to believe that peoples...
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Jay Murdock
- Jun 17, 2011
- 1 min
Quandary, of Sorts
Do we act on change for the sake of it? Or, do we stay with the tried and true, cause it’s the thing to do? Do we continue to conserve...
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Jay Murdock
- Dec 22, 2010
- 1 min
On a Pallet of Straw
They did not travel in an airplane. They did not travel by car. They did not travel on a streamline train. They traveled on foot from...
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Jay Murdock
- Dec 10, 2010
- 2 min
Little-Known Black History Fact: Claude McKay
By: Erica Taylor / The Tom Joyner Morning Show – December 10, 2010 Claude McKay was a pioneering Jamaican-American poet and author during...
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Jay Murdock
- Nov 13, 2010
- 1 min
The Last Man Living
When the last man living Is left alive on earth, And somebody knocks at the door – If I am the last man living I will be no more!...
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Jay Murdock
- Nov 5, 2010
- 1 min
Who Remains Standing?
First, erase your name, unravel your years, destroy your surroundings, uproot what you seem, and who remains standing? Then, rewrite your...
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Jay Murdock
- Oct 15, 2010
- 1 min
A Women Who Loves
A women who loves impossible men sits a long time indoors watching windows she has no brother who understands where she is going her...
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Jay Murdock
- Oct 11, 2010
- 1 min
The Artist
I am no artist but in bed I can paint with my fingertip your breast, your mouth and cheeks, and surely your crooked smile that floats...
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Jay Murdock
- Sep 16, 2010
- 1 min
My Father’s Geography
I was parading the Co’te d’ Azure, hopping the short trains from Nice to Cannes, following the maze of streets in Monte Carlo to the...
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Jay Murdock
- Sep 9, 2010
- 1 min
WITHOUT
the silence of nature within the power within. the power without. the path is whatever passes – no end in itself. the end is, grace –...
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Jay Murdock
- Aug 18, 2010
- 1 min
Old Man
Like an image from an Ansel Adams photograph, his dark brown skin stretched thin over a face that has seen better days. He hurried down...
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Jay Murdock
- Jul 18, 2010
- 1 min
Daybreak
every day i find a new life my love for freedom, our right to wear robes as we please, never sets. black voices dance in my soul like...
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Jay Murdock
- Jul 6, 2010
- 1 min
Old Sailor
He has been Many places In ships That cross the sea, He has studied varied faces, Has tasted mystery, In Oriental cities He breasted...
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Jay Murdock
- Jun 18, 2010
- 1 min
I Am A Writer
I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within....
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Jay Murdock
- Jun 13, 2010
- 1 min
Song of the Whirlwind
1 Oh, my God is in the whirlwind, I am walking in the valley; Lift me up, O Shinning Father, To the glory of the heavens, I have seen a...
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Jay Murdock
- Jun 1, 2010
- 1 min
Soft Targets ……. for Black Girls
He was arrested and detained for nailing Barbie doll heads to telephone poles. He was beaten while in custody, accussed. After healing,...
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Jay Murdock
- May 30, 2010
- 1 min
If I Were Earth
Each tear that fell from the crushed moon of your face, stabbed me, broke and split into a thousand pains. But I held out my arms, and...
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