Last night, as I was wracking my brain to come up with an end-of-year post that was reflective, inspirational and…
My church did Resurrection Sunday differently this year. The Drama Ministry and Choir conducted the whole service, except for the…
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One of the reasons I stopped working on my memoir was because when an agent strongly suggested I adapt my…
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This inconsistency between black identity and Christianity’s role in the oppression of black people is something I think all black…
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I spent a portion of my last day at 33 dancing and thinking about the messages in the dance. On…
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Despite the photos I’m posting on Facebook and Twitter, this trip isn’t all, or even 10%, about the beach. It’s…
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I write about my life of “existing in many spaces at once, holding multiple identities and not quite serving…
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I saw a lot of men up in arms on social media yesterday over a New Jersey Superior Court judge’s…
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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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What makes me a feminist? I’ve been thinking about this question since my feminism history class last night. We were…
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No, not Mellie, even though I am writing this after Scandal. At a housewarming party last week for a…
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A note about today’s post: I have a bi-weekly column on National Catholic Reporter, and I plan to use these…
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I think Olivia Pope was wrong about herself on last night’s “Scandal.†I don’t think she wants painful love (which…
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(For the first Faith & Feminism Friday of 2013, I’m a guest contributor on the “Feminism and Religion” blog. The…
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Dear Ms. Rhimes: Most of the time, I love you and you make me regret not sticking it…
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I have a problem with obedience—not necessarily the action, but the idea of it. Obedience implies acts done with or…
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Sometimes I read posts written as responses to something unusual and esoteric written online and wonder how the respondent found…
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In part 1, I talked about Hanna Rosin’s book The End of Men and the Rise of Women and suggested that…
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Last Saturday, for the first time ever, I went to a wedding and took notes. I think most single women…
The following is part of a real text conversation that took place February 2, 2012. ME: Did u know the…
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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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