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Links to samples of some of my recent work:
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Social Media
The Winston Willis Euclid Avenue Empire
https://www.instagram.com/thewinstonwillisempire/INSTAGRAM: Aundra2021
https://www.instagram.com/aundra2021/
INSTAGRAM: The Rise and Fall of the Winston Willis Empire
https://www.instagram.com/thewinstonwillisempire/
FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/winstonslands
FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/aundra.willis
https://twitter.com/Aundra_Willis
Miracle On East 105th Street
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cav6lzKg8FC/
Contributing writer: Clifton House, Baltimore: The Legacy of award-winning poet, Lucille Clifton
America! Your day of reckoning is imminent…Taking our land back
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/america-your-day-of-reckoning-is-imminent-8ce00518ab40
When will it become a crime in America…?”
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/when-will-it-become-a-crime-in-america-af3ff288820
53 Years Ago: April 9, 1968 - The Funeral of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/53-years-ago-april-9-1968-bffe901c7b18
Lynching With Guns
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/96204611068
Grieving Mothers of Black Sons
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/the-grief-of-mothers-of-black-sons-8ceb8e816538
Systemic Racism in America: Then and Now
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/systemic-racism-in-america-8db7901e51fc
History:
On The Shoulders of Giants
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/on-the-shoulders-of-giants-e16372d4b0f5
C.T. Vivian: Civil Rights Pioneer – Living Legend
Stolen Land: Exposing America’s Historical Amnesia
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/stolen-land-exposing-americas-historical-amnesia-a724174da782
11/22/63: Where I Was
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/67242366362/november-22-1963-where-i-was
1963 at 50: Looking Back
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/57416096311/summer-of-63
My Mother’s Friend, Mrs. Rosa
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/my-mothers-friend-mrs-rosa-cd49a841bd3f
From Classroom To A Place In History
https://medium.com/@aundra.willis/from-classroom-to-a-place-in-history-8c8bf41f8c0e
Mrs. Rosa, My Mother’s Friend
https://medium.com/@aundra.willis/my-mothers-friend-mrs-rosa-cd49a841bd3f
Sixty-Four Years After the Montgomery Bus Boycott The City Leads The Way Again
Zora and Cudjo A Slave Narrative Publication Long-Delayed
Revisiting The I Have A Dream Speech
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/revisiting-the-i-have-a-dream-speech-38717d3b0e0b
56 Years Ago Today: The 1963 March on Washington
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/56-years-ago-today-the-1963-march-on-washington-b7925864a90f
August 28, 1963
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/58035707648/august-28-1963
Monday, December 5, 1955: When Montgomery Walked
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/154114954648/monday-december-5-1955-when-montgomery
April, 1963 — The Beginning of A Long Hot Summer
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/april-1963-the-beginning-of-a-long-hot-summer-a67ece0540a
When Ali Was King
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/muhammad-ali-when-he-was-king-1427a326c7bd
Myrlie Evers: “More than the widow of…”
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/myrlie-evers-more-than-the-widow-of-955d03118a15
64 Years After the Montgomery Bus Boycott The City Leads The Way Again
November 22, 1963: Where I Was
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/november-22-1963-where-i-was-567ffae0d299
Revisiting The I Have A Dream Speech
https://medium.com/@aundra.willis/revisiting-the-i-have-a-dream-speech-38717d3b0e0b
53 Years Ago: April 9, 1968
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/53-years-ago-april-9-1968-bffe901c7b18
When Montgomery Walked…
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/56126711617/when-montgomery-walked
One Hundred and Fifty Years
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/55674853194/one-hundred-and-fifty-years
June 11, 1963
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/52693659816/june-11-1963
The Great March on Detroit: June 23, 1963
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/53663709036/detroit-sunday-june-23-1963
How I Remember Mrs. Rosa Parks
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/42259875385/i-remember-rosa-parks
My Brother, Winston E. Willis:
Young Winston: The Price of Black$ Power in the 1960s
105th and Euclid: The Winston Willis Story
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/105th-and-euclid-the-winston-willis-story-ecdbb2778b2d
The Social Network of the 1970s
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/119267832948/the-social-network-of-the-1970s
First Do No Harm: The Taking of 105th and Euclid
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/first-do-no-harm-the-taking-of-105th-and-euclid-5bd29cd501e4
The Closed Doors of Justice
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/the-closed-doors-of-justice-caf8ba67f1d3
“When will it become a crime in America…?”
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/when-will-it-become-a-crime-in-america-af3ff288820
What Lies Beneath
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/163264148778/what-lies-beneath
Voices From Cleveland…Past and Present 1973, 1979, 2015
Voting Rights:
Voting Rights: The Fight Continues
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/56923452762/voting-rights-the-fight-continues
History Lesson for Non-Voters
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/a-history-lesson-for-non-voters-95d957077966
We Must Never Forget
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/35727218875/we-must-not-forget
If I Could’ve Voted at 16
Voting Rights Then and Now
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/54238792611/voting-rights-then-and-now
Alabama, After All These Years
A New Generation of Foot Soldiers
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/35117006954/a-new-generation-of-footsoldiers
Restoring the Protections of the Voting Rights Act
The Supremes Disappoint
Anticipation: Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
Politics:
The History We Made Together
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/35260671843/remembering
From Hawaii to Washington
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/34933013816/from-hawaii-to-washington
Trump: The Greatest Con Job In American History
Thank You Mr. President
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/135559447018/thank-you-mr-president
“Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”…
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/falsus-in-uno-falsus-in-omnibus-926130b217df
Race Relations:
Systemic Racism Then and Now
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/systemic-racism-in-america-8db7901e51fc
Racially-Motivated Mass Murder And Our Lingering Question…
Fear of the Black Man
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/103968037083/fear-of-the-black-man
…One Picture Speaks a Thousand Words
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/103792054873/one-picture-speaks-a-thousand-words
What Happened to Sandra Bland?
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/124824561023/what-happened-to-sandra-bland
60 Years Later: ‘With All Deliberate Speed’
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/85990084938/60-years-later-with-all-deliberate-speed
Race Matters
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/83800305660/race-matters
Acquitted…
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/56823353671/acquitted
“Not Guilty”: A Modern Day Lynching
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/56321217258/not-guilty-a-modern-day-lynching
What Now America?
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/55489591907/what-now-america
Women’s Issues:
“Air Quotes” Debunking the Myth of “the strong Black Woman”
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/34784924984
Anita Hill is owed an apology, and the line forms to the Right
Recy Taylor and the “Me Too” Moment of the Civil Rights Movement
The Right To Bare Arms
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/35898622728/the-right-to-bare-arms
Female Television News Anchors: Serious Journalists or Hot News Babes, Bimbos/Bimbettes?
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/55395609836/female-television-news-anchors-serious
Remembering Minnie Riperton
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/remembering-minnie-riperton-722b0b8e793f
Lucille Clifton: Their Mother’s Voice
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/lucille-clifton-their-mothers-voice-81724c336daa
Tina Turner: An Eyewitness to her Miraculous Transformation
Unsung: Channeling My Mother
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/unsung-channeling-my-mother-e8fb444217d5
The Second Oldest Profession
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/the-second-oldest-profession-e5199417f4a0
The War on Women
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/35055302585/the-war-on-women
Personal:
Me
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/34540032945/me
Women of Words, Words of Inspiration
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/34347548944/the-wall
Spirit Muse
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/34697178536/spirit-muse
My space is still my space, and solitude is my religion
In the wee small hours of the morning…
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/in-the-wee-small-hours-of-the-morning-2176e35d321b
The Solitude of Space
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/34282809031/my-space
My Favorite Place to Write
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/34404467131/my-favorite-place
December 10th — Born On This Day, Emily Dickinson and Me
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/december-10th-born-on-this-day-emily-dickinson-and-me-f081ff91cef9
A Chance Encounter With My Favorite Director
Since You Went Away…
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/since-you-went-away-bf1a84b41c3a
Serendipity
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/32995213435/serendipity
September 30, 1955
https://aundrawilliscarrasco.tumblr.com/post/165878217113/september-30-1955
Ruby Red Lipstick and Natalie Wood Eyebrows
https://aundra-willis.medium.com/ruby-red-lipstick-and-natalie-wood-eyebrows-c1f21656c414