Klansmen, Crips, Clowns, Memphis and Me

Clown protesters in Charlotte, Nov. 10, 2012

This Saturday the Ku Klux Klan is promising to have one of its largest rallies ever in Memphis, Tennessee. I’m headed there too.

The Memphis park formerly known as Forrest Park, after Civil War general, slave trader and first Grand Wizard of the KKK Nathan Bedford Forrest, now bears the innocuous moniker “Health Sciences . . . → Read More: Klansmen, Crips, Clowns, Memphis and Me

White Flour is now a video!

White Flour frame

Here’s a way to hear and see this story, that doesn’t require buying the book. Please feel free to share it in any context you like, virtual or actual.

 

White Flour book on the way...

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My new illustrated book will be coming out in late May.  It tells a funny, instructive and true story of a creative anti-racism protest by a group calling itself the Coup Clutz Clowns, in Knoxville, Tennessee.  If all goes well, the book . . . → Read More: White Flour book on the way…

In Light of Current Events

Sadly, it seems that my poem White Flour refuses to be outdated. There is more sad news on the topic from Tennessee yesterday. People at shows have been asking where they can get a copy, so I’ve decided to add a permanent page with the text.  Feel free to distribute as you see . . . → Read More: In Light of Current Events