by Dionne D. Hunter | Apr 20, 2024 | Awards
International Video Poetry Festival #11 This past year, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece. My sister traveled with me, and we were assigned a wonderful sponsor family, the Doutsiou family, who...
by Dionne D. Hunter | Feb 18, 2021 | Awards, Portfolio
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...
by Dionne D. Hunter | Oct 8, 2020 | Awards, Portfolio
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...
by Dionne D. Hunter | Jul 19, 2020 | Awards, Portfolio
“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...
by Dionne D. Hunter | Jul 17, 2020 | Awards, Portfolio
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...
