D.C. Lights, sirens, and city sounds, Black, yellow, and brown all around. Everyone rushing with no attention paid The many heads that have no place to be laid. What is justice without oppression? Sadness and pain with hungry aggression. Lives destroyed all for a dollar sign. Build it all new, an expensive design. Mike it pretty so everything’s alright. Don’t discriminate, but that … Continue Reading ››

How could we have lived in this valley for 20 years and not know about places like Zenda, Long’s Chapel, Newtown, or the stories of Lucy Simms, Bethel A.M.E. church, Ralph Sampson or the Islamic Center of the Shenandoah Valley?  Here they all were, right under our noses and yet we were not familiar with … Continue Reading ››