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I am a Dahmey Warrior!
I am a Dahomey Warrior! “I am a Dahomey Warrior!” follows our heroine from the early days of her childhood through the heart-stopping events that mold her into the warrior she is today.
Central State University “Importance of HBCUs”
Parrot Literary Corner EP193
Parrot Literary Corner EP193: Dionne D. Hunter and Her Haunting Musing and Inking Styles
The Good Ole Days
They often wonder, can’t we go back to the good ole days, when protestors, were like Martin Luther King Jr, Peaceful Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light We answer, Have you forgotten; he was murdered as well? What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last...
How Art Speaks in Unsettling Times
Feature: How Art Speaks in Unsettling Times Ms. Hunter's segment is found at 4mins and 5secsFeature Pieces
Humanity
During the slave trade, it’s estimated that more than 15% of the Africans forced aboard ships never saw their destination. To combat their loss of "profit" the owners of those ships purchased insurance on their human "cargo". The only problem in their eyes, the...
Onward
Listen to on Sound CloudThe year was 1863 and Blacks were finally freeFree to live their lives as they pleasedJust so long as how they pleased never upset the balance sheetFree from the chains that bond them to work land that wasn’t theirsYet not free enough to escape...
I Can’t Breathe
“I Can’t Breathe” is my attempt at giving voice to some of the travesties forced upon African Americans, the affects those travesties had on African Americans and our response to them.
Black Lives Do Matter
Off in the distance you make out many different voicesUnitedRisingChantingBlack Lives Matter, Black Lives MatterYou attempt to control your emotions but the more they chant the more you lose control and finally it’s all too muchand you scream at the crowd, don’t you...
Momma May I
by Dionne D. Hunter Momma May I look into your eyes once moreSee your beautiful smileFeel your warm embraceHear you calling out to me“Come here baby let Momma kiss it, and make it feel better.”And Yes your kisses always took the pain away Momma, help me to erase the...