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Folk are calling Ta-Nehisi Coates the new James Baldwin. The fire is still burning! In Between the World and Me, Coates’ treatise on race and …
Folk are calling Ta-Nehisi Coates the new James Baldwin. The fire is still burning! In Between the World and Me, Coates’ treatise on race and …
There is culture and then there is Culture. The word itself is derived from a Latin root for growing and tending land. After further research …
Show up and show out. Simply stated, these instructions can be applied to almost anything: a new job; a new relationship; a new home town; …
The most powerful word in my vocabulary is “I” followed by “am.” You know as in “I am, somebody,” or “I am, black;” “I am, …
Targeted. A police officer was executed near Houston, Texas. The news media is reporting that he was presumably targeted, simply because he wore a uniform. …
Trump. Clinton. Bush. Kasich. Carson. And all the rest. While it is too early to predict, with any surety, who will actually be on the …
We attach labels to describe our heritage. You say, “I’m black, Caucasian, Middle Eastern, Asian, etc.” These are very strong attachments. Some of us literally …
What do The Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), and Bill Cosby have in common? Privilege, i.e., their sense of entitlement. …
I’m not reminiscing about a past television comedy show, even though there is so much that gave us pause to laugh about. About that week: …
In the recent news, there has been so much written about Rachel Dolezal, the former Spokane, Washington NAACP branch President, who lied about being mixed …