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You may ask for freedom only if you live above reproach. That was the message to enslaved black people in…
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Similar to how priests who abused children were shifted from parish to parish but never disciplined. Systemic. https://t.co/87lcN7n0mN — Mariam…
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On the Sunday following the Charleston massacre hate crime, those who hadn’t reached the point where they could forgive the…
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Though I am often critical of the Black Church, my criticism comes from a place of love and fondness…
I’m among the million or so people who have seen NFL player Benjamin Watson’s Facebook post about Ferguson, but in…
On Aug. 1, I was marching in the Emancipation Day parade along the streets of Port of Spain, Trinidad, the finale of…
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Every once in a while, you hear something so offensive that it smacks you like a heat index of 102…
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Do public celebrations commemorating emancipation, heritage and history help to instill a private consciousness in the people of the communities…
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During my Fulbright-National Geographic application process (from initial decision to apply to outcome), there were three specific times I seriously…
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UPDATE 7/7/2013: People who are better photographers than I am took tons of photos of everyone. Click here to see…
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***Update 6/11/2013: If writers of color need a space to gather, their books need a place to be sold, and…
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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…
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I wish the Academy Awards had segregated seating. They already sort of do; actors, producers and directors sit in the…
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Last week, I went to a talk entitled, “The Future of Whiteness.†Philosopher Linda Alcoff talked about how white people…
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As I progress with subsequent drafts of my book, I’ve been meeting with another writer for accountability and feedback….
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As a writer, I love subtext, and Shonda Rhimes does it brilliantly. The genius behind “Grey’s Anatomy†and “Scandal 
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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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Since I haven’t done this in a couple weeks, and I’ve spent several nights of the past week up…
One of the unfortunate aspects of being a print journalist is that I can’t share links in the newspaper, and…
When I read yesterday that Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, a church in my lovely state of Kentucky, voted to ban…
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