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