Show up and show out
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; …
Seize the ‘I am’ moment
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, …
Level the playing field: Black Lives Matter
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. …
Rewrite the script of race relations
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 …
Naming and claiming
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 …
Cosby, the KKK and the CCC
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. …
That was the week that was, yes it was
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: …
Black consciousness: by birth or choice
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 …
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Scientific and other evolutionary issues have never been easy to discuss. Remember what they did to Galileo when he discovered that the earth was not …
The color of black
My mother was revolutionary. A genius! As far back as I remember, she told me I was a beautiful brown baby! She was talking about …