Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Oct 28, 2020
- 3 min
SHADOW, MASKS, VIRUS AND DEATH / THE DREAM
EARLY this morning I had a mind twisting dream. I was a cranky Professor alienated in the time of the plague. My mask wearing students stare
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Aug 11, 2020
- 5 min
You Can't Go Home Again, Parts 1 & 2
Part One Crash. The statue of Robert E. Lee comes tumbling down. Sir Donald says “NO MORE! I’ll protect our history from mobs of ultra...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Aug 3, 2020
- 3 min
You Can't Go Home Again, Part 3
John Lewis gave us more than his body. He gave his soul. As a late teen, around 1960, from the small town of Troy, Alabama, Lewis decided...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Jan 20, 2020
- 1 min
On Martin Luther King Day, 2020
Martin Luther King day. The news clips I see show portions of his prophetic 'I have a Dream' speech, and make him out to be a saint. I...
Jeff Nightbyrd Shero
- Sep 3, 2019
- 3 min
Rat Files: Looking Back at Woodstock
WITH ABBIE HOFFMAN — BECOMING PIRATES FOR WOODSTOCK Woodstock was the buzz. At RAT we were getting calls from underground papers around...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Sep 4, 2017
- 5 min
The RAT File: Kurt Vonnegut
The RAT office nested among the still Jewish and Ukrainian tenements of East 4th street. A rumpled man tentatively opened the door. At...