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You may ask for freedom only if you live above reproach. That was the message to enslaved black people in…
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…
Though I am often critical of the Black Church, my criticism comes from a place of love and fondness…
I’m among the million or so people who have seen NFL player Benjamin Watson’s Facebook post about Ferguson, but in…
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…
Do public celebrations commemorating emancipation, heritage and history help to instill a private consciousness in the people of the communities…
During my Fulbright-National Geographic application process (from initial decision to apply to outcome), there were three specific times I seriously…
UPDATE 7/7/2013: People who are better photographers than I am took tons of photos of everyone. Click here to see…
***Update 6/11/2013: If writers of color need a space to gather, their books need a place to be sold, and…
I’m at the 2013 AWP Conference in Boston this week, and yesterday, I attended a session about teaching creative writing…
I wish the Academy Awards had segregated seating. They already sort of do; actors, producers and directors sit in the…
Last week, I went to a talk entitled, “The Future of Whiteness.†Philosopher Linda Alcoff talked about how white people…
As I progress with subsequent drafts of my book, I’ve been meeting with another writer for accountability and feedback….
As a writer, I love subtext, and Shonda Rhimes does it brilliantly. The genius behind “Grey’s Anatomy†and “Scandal 
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…
Since I haven’t done this in a couple weeks, and I’ve spent several nights of the past week up…
One of the unfortunate aspects of being a print journalist is that I can’t share links in the newspaper, and…
When I read yesterday that Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, a church in my lovely state of Kentucky, voted to ban…
