Don't show this collection if you like to spread interest in poetry. If someone had handed me the poetry book Divine Blue Light for John Coltrane by Will Alexander, I would have never read a book of poetry in my life. This book, by a person touted as a Pulitzer…

The surrealist television show is an instant classic and will be missed. Watching the first episode of Atlanta hooked me. Two scenes reeled me in. From the very first scene, the confrontation in the parking lot outside a nightclub between the three protagonists, Ern, Paper Boy, Darius, and a young…

Is AI and machine learning helping to perpetuate bias? We hear and read much about how AI is not a technology that will help eliminate the bias of race, gender, and culture. AI seems to mirror the entranced racial norms that exist in atomic (as opposed to digital) reality. There…

All you Really Need is One Strong Password — stop playin’ In 2008, my wife purchased my first biometric computer as a gift for me. I registered my fingers on both hands just in case I lost one of those hands, and the system worked fine. I was a little…

The MAGA crowd is desperately holding on to a world that never existed. The political and racial division in America is so deep-seated into our culture, not even palpable truth can uproot this invasive social disease. The political climate raises questions about the possibility of violence. However, we are way…

In Alamance County, It’s 1950 I recently visited a small, quaint southern town and was unexpectantly transported to the year 1950. The courthouse is located in the town square. A colossal statue dedicated to the brave soldiers of the confederacy stands guard at the entrance. …

When I was around six or seven years old, my best friend and neighbor, Raymond, told me the story of how our earth was made. I found it fascinating and thought that Raymond must have been the most intelligent person in the world. It was some time before I realized…

At less than 15 minutes long, the featurette, “One, Two, Three, Eyes On Me,” left a mark I can’t erase. A few weeks ago, I watched a movie that was one of the most disturbing movies I have ever watched on HBO. So disturbing, as a matter of fact, that…

Distrust is stopping us from using it. We have the technology to conduct secure voting. The technology is not 100% un-hackable. Society has not invented Hacker-proof technology yet. However, it can provide security, anonymity, and accuracy to ensure fair elections.ff Then why are we not using digital technology to vote…