The sentence is inflicted by white supremacy and its brother patriarchy, the same forces trapping so many people in prisons…
I want everyone to care about stories that aren’t their own, that aren’t necessarily what they think they could relate…
Last week I had the privilege of attending Freedom Dreams Freedom Now, a conference sponsored by the Social Justice Initiative at…
I passed on the Grammy Awards last Sunday to go see 12 Years a Slave. When I got home from…
I’m a little late on looking back, but I wrote 67 posts in 2013. Here’s my top 10 list of…
I said I wouldn’t write about this because I knew I wouldn’t download the album until after Christmas and my…
In “The Comfort of a Sweet, Black, Dreadlocked Jesus,” I recalled the image of Jesus Christ as depicted in a painting…
“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love…
Many years ago, my father said that by the time I have children, they’ll be white kids dipped in chocolate….
A few quick observations/insights from my first night at VONA: 1. My workshop leader is intense and fierce. Imagine an…
Am I a “Southerner?” Yesterday’s Talk of the Nation made me want to say, “Yes!†I was in the car…
When I saw the tweets below last night from Dr. Kaila Story, an assistant professor at the University of…
As a child, my weekend breakfast menu was consistent: Aunt Jemimah buttermilk pancakes—with whole milk and margarine in the batter,…
I’ve been trying to compose something about the election for the past two weeks, but I haven’t had much to…
“to be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation…
The full name of this blog is Redbone Afropuff & Black GRITS. I generally ignore the part after “and†because…