
"We're hungry but we won't give in." ~Sade from When am I Going to Make a Living (my theme song)
art, poetry, and thoughts by Marcus Kwame Anderson
Much thanks to Angelina, who has a very nice, creative blog herself. The Lovely Blog Award is the gift that keeps giving, in that once you are given it you give it to 15 other blogs you dig. Here are mine (in no particular order).
Meet Quentin. He's a character in a comic that my creative partner in crime, Mr. Gone and I are working on. Quentin runs a Jamaican restaurant and is very much an old school yardie who rarely smiles. He does, however, have a sharp sense of humor, a strict code of honor and is one of the most well read individuals you will ever meet.



Any rational adult can see that there is a mountain of evidence of murder and a cover-up, and yet the military maintains their story that Lavena Johnson's death was a suicide. Her father has worked tirelessly to get someone to investigate Lavena's death, but little progress has been made thus far.From Firedoglake.com:
After two years of requesting documents, one set of papers provided by the Army included a xerox copy of a CD. Wondering why the xerox copy was in the documents, Dr. Johnson requested the CD itself. With help from his local Congressional representative, the US Army finally complied. When Dr. Johnson viewed the CD, he was shocked to see photographs taken by Army investigators of his daughter’s body as it lay where her body had been found, as well as other photographs of her disrobed body taken during the investigation.
The photographs revealed that Lavena, a small woman, barely 5 feet tall and weighing less than 100 pounds, had been struck in the face with a blunt instrument, perhaps a weapon stock. Her nose was broken and her teeth knocked backwards. One elbow was distended. The back of her clothes had debris on them indicating she had been dragged from one location to another. The photographs of her disrobed body showed bruises, scratch marks and teeth imprints on the upper part of her body. The right side of her back as well as her right hand had been burned apparently from a flammable liquid poured on her and then lighted. The photographs of her genital area revealed massive bruising and lacerations. A corrosive liquid had been poured into her genital area, probably to destroy DNA evidence of sexual assault.
Despite the bruises, scratches, teeth imprints and burns on her body, Lavena was found completely dressed in the burning tent. There was a blood trail from outside a contractor’s tent to inside the tent. She apparently had been dressed after the attack and her attacker placed her body into the tent and set it on fire.