Legal scholar and author Geoffrey Stone delivered the keynote address at the 2017 Woodhull Foundation Sexual Freedom Summit. Entitled, “Sex…
This week’s essay is posted on The Thought Erotic for its inauguration issue, “We the People Won’t Be…
… there is nothing new under the sun. –Ecclesiastes 1:9 When I heard about 50 people at a gay nightclub…
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…
At the Emancipation Day parade in Trinidad, something happened that I didn’t expect: Jesus showed up. The truck we had…
Do public celebrations commemorating emancipation, heritage and history help to instill a private consciousness in the people of the communities…
Last week I had the privilege of attending Freedom Dreams Freedom Now, a conference sponsored by the Social Justice Initiative at…
During my Fulbright-National Geographic application process (from initial decision to apply to outcome), there were three specific times I seriously…
I’m a little late on looking back, but I wrote 67 posts in 2013. Here’s my top 10 list of…
In “The Comfort of a Sweet, Black, Dreadlocked Jesus,” I recalled the image of Jesus Christ as depicted in a painting…
What makes me a feminist? I’ve been thinking about this question since my feminism history class last night. We were…
Many years ago, my father said that by the time I have children, they’ll be white kids dipped in chocolate….
***Update 6/11/2013: If writers of color need a space to gather, their books need a place to be sold, and…
As I progress with subsequent drafts of my book, I’ve been meeting with another writer for accountability and feedback….
I was going over a long list of possible topics to blog about when I jumped on Twitter to…
I’ve been trying to compose something about the election for the past two weeks, but I haven’t had much to…
At an event a few weeks ago about cross-generational workplaces, I learned that most members of any given generation are…
My first post on Ebony.com went live there on April 25. It starts: The recent class action lawsuit against ABC…
When I read yesterday that Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, a church in my lovely state of Kentucky, voted to ban…
“Planters care for nothing but to buy Negroes to raise cotton & raise cotton to buy Negroes.â€Â –an unnamed southerner…