by Terrance Heath | Apr 26, 2011 | Blog
"What do we think? What do we know? What can we prove?" That's a quote from "And the Band Played On," HBO's adaptation of Randy Shilts' book about the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It's the mantra of Centers for Disease Control...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 22, 2011 | Blog
What happens to a dream deferred? …Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? ~ Langston Hughes, "Harlem" Dreams figure prominently in the poetry of Langston Hughes; not just in "Harlem," but poems like "Dreams" and...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 20, 2011 | Blog
Langston Hughes once asked, "What happens to a dream deferred?"; a rhetorical question answered with still more questions. The current economic crisis raises a similar question: What's happened to the American Dream? According to a recent survey, less than...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 19, 2011 | Blog
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? … ~ Langton Hughes, "Harlem" Whose Dream? Since Hughes wrote "Harlem" in 1951, literary critics have tried to identify the dream Hughes...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 15, 2011 | Blog
Of the two top items in my newsreader, I'm not sure which I like best. First, there's President Obama's open-mic incident after his big speech. Apparently, Obama had what he thought was a private conversation with campaign donors, but it turned out the microphone was...
