Best Reads Week 8.25.2012
Since I haven’t done this in a couple weeks, and I’ve spent several nights of the past week up late, eyes glued to my computer screen, it’s time to share the week’s best reads, and one video. The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates hit the nail on the head with “Fear of a Black President.” Part [...]
Paying respect to The Help
I’ve grown up attending wakes and funerals for people of my grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ generations. At these sad memorials marketed as visitations, going-home celebrations and extemporaneous family reunions, I often saw white people who were somewhere around the age of my mother and her siblings. I wondered who they were and why they were [...]
In Defense of The Help
UPDATE 8/29/2011: I’ve seen the movie—with my grandmother and other women of her generation who were ‘The Help’—and after a post-film discussion with them, I still stand by everything I said below. Listen to their experiences. I came away from the book with a different take. Here are some things I plan to keep in [...]
When you see a woman drive
Women didn’t drive very often when my maternal grandmother was a girl.
Food for the Soul
On Mothers’ Day, I went to my grandmother’s house and forgot to eat. How did I go to grandma’s house and FORGET to eat physical food? I nibbled on some food for my soul instead.
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