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Mr. Dynamite Splits

By Thomas Sayers Ellis

This article appeared in the April 9, 2007 edition of The Nation.

March 22, 2007

December 25, 2006

Long before the patriot acts
of anthems Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud,
Funky President and Living In America,
you and your Revue were

the only flames the hood could afford,
and by "hood" I mean "nation"
and by "nation" I mean "community"
and by "community"

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