by Michael Leppert | Dec 17, 2021 | Pop/Life
I had heard of bell hooks. I recognized her face in the photos I have seen the last few days but would not have been able to explain how or why. And that was all. The feminist author, poet and professor died of end-stage renal failure on December 15 in her home in...
by Michael Leppert | Jan 22, 2021 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
Amanda Gorman stole the show at the inauguration on Wednesday. After she read her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” I looked her up and followed her on Twitter. She had 80,000 followers. Plenty of other people knew about her before this week. By the time I sat...
