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I’m at the 2013 AWP Conference in Boston this week, and yesterday, I attended a session about teaching creative writing…
For this last day of American Heart Month, I present a health story. One year ago, I found out I…
(For the first Faith & Feminism Friday of 2013, I’m a guest contributor on the “Feminism and Religion” blog. The…
As I progress with subsequent drafts of my book, I’ve been meeting with another writer for accountability and feedback….
As a child, my weekend breakfast menu was consistent: Aunt Jemimah buttermilk pancakes—with whole milk and margarine in the batter,…
I was going over a long list of possible topics to blog about when I jumped on Twitter to…
I haven’t seen the new film, “Lincoln,†yet (and with what may be a pinched nerve making it hard to…
First, epic fail on my part for not taking any photos at the “Diana: A Celebration†exhibit at Frazier History…
“to be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation…
In part 1, I talked about Hanna Rosin’s book The End of Men and the Rise of Women and suggested that…
Tonight, I have the pleasure of moderating a community discussion about everyone. I’ll be bringing the estrogen to a panel…
I’ve spent the past several days absorbing commentary via social media and NPR about President Obama’s views on same-sex marriage…
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…
In his column, “America’s obsession with missing white women,â€Â Miami Herald writer Leonard Pitts asserts that the incessant news coverage of…
“Planters care for nothing but to buy Negroes to raise cotton & raise cotton to buy Negroes.â€Â –an unnamed southerner…
This Op-Ed was published in the Courier-Journal on Aug. 12, 2011, and it can’t be found on the Courier-Journal’s website….
  I published the column below in Velocity Weekly in 2009 after seeing the movie, Pray the Devil Back to…
One day at the grade school That had been ordered To desegregate only, Virginia saw the red clutch bag On…
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…
My column below was published 8/2/2011 as “Hospital Merger is a Double-Edged Sword for Indigent Women,” in The Forum section…
If you’ve ever gone to a Tyler Perry play or movie and returned home feeling like you paid to see black men receive a collective slap in the face, this play is your answer. There’s no light-skinned, and/or blue-collar hero saving the abused woman from the evil dark-skinned and/or professional man. No choir will sing. There will be no weddings and no one will come to Jesus at the end.
Is “For Colored Girls” offensive? Divisive? Poorly written? All of the above? Depends on the context. However, critiquing the film in the context of traditional film school storytelling rules explains why the movie generates such polarizing reactions.
In a recent Courier-Journal article, Lifehouse executive director Joan Smith said the organization offers alternatives to abortion and said that Palin’s life “is the reality. She is a role model in the fact that she chose to have her child.†A role model? Reality? If Bristol Palin had to live one day of her magical life like the pregnant teens I’ve known, I don’t think she would be able to take it.
I could chalk my lack of a loving spirit up to hospitality just not being my gift, but if I am made in God’s image and am to imitate Christ, then I am not only required to be a better servant, but I am also fully capable of doing so–freely, fully and unconditionally.
