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Alan W. King

Tag: government

Written by Alan KingOctober 12, 2013October 18, 2013

Our Government Shouldn’t Default on its Youth and Seniors

This weekend’s forecast is rife with symbolism. Take the snarling sky and the thunderheads rumbling through the district. Take the flash floods, the pounding winds, the power outages. And what you have is a local storm analogous to the one in Congress that shutdown the government last week, leaving this country’s defenseless citizens to wonder […]

Written by Alan KingAugust 7, 2011August 12, 2011

Averse to Illiteracy: Poets Come Out Against DC’s Ailing Public School Libraries

Walking past DC’s Watts Park in Northeast, the people stopped in their tracks when they heard  Mister Señor Love Daddy, from Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing, speaking. The fictitious disc jockey was invoked through a poem by Fresno, Texas-poet Jonathan Moody. Through Derrick Weston Brown’s reading of the poem, Love Daddy held court for […]

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