Meg & Her Momma: Ain’t Nothing Black & White
I binge-watched the Meghan Markle / Prince Harry documentary yesterday. There could easily be an entire year’s worth of DEI class content based solely on the issues that surfaced in […]
Sometimes You Can Only Do What You Can Do; and That’s Enough
The best I can. That’s what I did each day to help me push through 2021. And that’s what I plan to continue to do in 2022. We oftentimes hear […]
White Racial Illiteracy Puts Us All In Jeopardy
More significantly, most White people have never had to learn about Black people. They’ve never had to adapt to our environment, or to learn our collective social norms (even noting that being Black is not one monolithic thing).
One Tough Thing I Want the Newly Woke to Understand
If a look could truly kill a person, my girl would be the feature of a Dateline murder mystery. Her side-eye can erase years of therapy and hours of self-esteem seminars. So, […]
My Dearest Black Valentine
My Dearest Valentines, I love you. Those words are insufficient; like one color in a rainbow. Expressly, I adore you. I am in love with you madly, completely, proudly, my […]
Black Enough? Who Gets a Card?
Teenage hormones evidently caused me to be temporarily insane because I brazenly announced to my strong, Southern, Black momma one day that if she didn’t allow me to go to […]
The Day After (From Trumped to Eventual Triumph)
“You MUST write something,” I keep being told. But how do you write an obituary so soon after death? Something died last night. Did hope die? Did the hope and […]