A song by Nina Simone
envisioned a world awaiting the
young, gifted and black.
Some 50 years later and
America is on a different course.
Its dominant voices
are far from young,
far from black,
and far from gifted.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
