theLeftAhead

“if you weren’t a part of it, at least you got to witness”

The strong, principled leadership we need + the swagger we deserve.

A 2022 CWA District 7 Conference Halloween Playlist.

Spittin truth through a mask.

In English / Scots Gaelic / Scottish / French In Saline, the grass is most certainly greener as t-samhraidh Ambrosial and sodden, seemingly endless—le vert blanket Stretching towards the nouveau whispers to the southeast But leaving the bourgeois fanfare to the English at Marshall Meadows Bay And so to peer towards Dunfermline san Lùnastal Is to behold Dia the Painter’s tapestry Upon completion of a masterpiece When emerald was the…

Billionaires don’t get to keep the power dawg you tweaking

Like a Rolling Stone – It was a different world, it was another life. Perhaps, in a cruelly poetic way, this was the bridge from the stability of a world that had sustained for decades to the chaos of a new world that awaited on the horizon just past the point of visibility. The San Antonio Spurs fought nobly to hang on to that past stability, to the order of…

theLeftAhead endorses Joe Biden for President and Kamala Harris for Vice President in Election 2020. theLeftAhead also endorses Wu-Tang forever.

Music is a tool for dismantling racism. Here are some songs of hope, comfort, understanding, joy, and determination. Black lives matter.

In memory of George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, Amhaud Arbery, Eric Garner, Philando Castille, Sandra Bland, Elijah McClain, and the blessed others. Say their names. Take the time to say all of the rest of their names

The first single from the band James.

We Are the Champions – June 24th, 1999. I’d been dreaming about this night, this game, this moment for a little over nine years. To be precise, I’d been dreaming about it ever since renewing my love for the game of basketball after returning to Texas from England as a eleven-year-old in January 1990. Let me explain. While living in England in 1989 (because my dad – a college professor…