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At a table on the quiet side of the room, five black women are talking. Sex. Helping a friend…
I sent this letter via email to senior high school students I teach in Camden, NJ, earlier this month. If…
The sentence is inflicted by white supremacy and its brother patriarchy, the same forces trapping so many people in prisons…
This week’s essay is posted on The Thought Erotic for its inauguration issue, “We the People Won’t Be…
I took myself to see Birth of a Nation earlier this week. (I told you I would.) Short review: well-acted…
“If a woman says she was raped, I believe her, because for all she has to go through, why would…
… there is nothing new under the sun. –Ecclesiastes 1:9 When I heard about 50 people at a gay nightclub…
You may ask for freedom only if you live above reproach. That was the message to enslaved black people in…
I came across the above quote last semester in my academic research but returned to it in June, when the…
Similar to how priests who abused children were shifted from parish to parish but never disciplined. Systemic. https://t.co/87lcN7n0mN — Mariam…
On the Sunday following the Charleston massacre hate crime, those who hadn’t reached the point where they could forgive the…
I’m willing to let this one go. Earlier this month, Louisville Metro Police Officer Nathan Blanford shot Deng Manyoun, a…
Though I am often critical of the Black Church, my criticism comes from a place of love and fondness…
Note: I wrote the following passage for Sowers of Justice 2015 Stations of the Cross, an annual Good Friday walk…
I’m among the million or so people who have seen NFL player Benjamin Watson’s Facebook post about Ferguson, but in…
Blogger’s note: This post was originally published in the Courier-Journal on Sept. 28, 2014 and edited by Pam Platt. For the…
This inconsistency between black identity and Christianity’s role in the oppression of black people is something I think all black…
On Aug. 1, I was marching in the Emancipation Day parade along the streets of Port of Spain, Trinidad, the finale of…
Every once in a while, you hear something so offensive that it smacks you like a heat index of 102…
Since I wrote this post, two things have happened: 1. I’ve seen some white people in Trinidad. 2. I’ve been…
Update 08/01/2-014: Victory. Read more here. Update 07/22/2014: LMHA is reevaluating. See this article in the Courier-Journal: http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2014/07/21/housing-authority-reviewing-section-experiment/12969879/ Update 07/14/2014:…
Last week I had the privilege of attending Freedom Dreams Freedom Now, a conference sponsored by the Social Justice Initiative at…
On Friday my mom and I drove up to the Evansville Museum to see the exhibit, “Posing Beauty in African…
I forgot the Golden Globes were on tonight, and I tuned in just in time to see Kerry Washington not…
I’m a little late on looking back, but I wrote 67 posts in 2013. Here’s my top 10 list of…
