Girlhood
November 9, 2015
It is the most honest, determined cinematic viewpoint on black youth since 1994’s Hoop Dreams. Girlhood is stunning. … More Girlhood
Category: Girls
Read excerpt of my next novel SPEAKING OF SUMMER in Intellectual Refuge Literary Journal…
August 31, 2015
In “Speaking of Summer,” the Black women appear to have it all: great homes, men, careers, girlfriends, beauty. But there is a cost to keeping the realities of how they feel about their treatment in the world such a closed secret… I thank editor Christopher Schnieders for publishing this small piece of it and I look forward to finishing it, to share more to come! … More Read excerpt of my next novel SPEAKING OF SUMMER in Intellectual Refuge Literary Journal…
Little Rock Nine, Four Little Girls, and One Confederate Flag: A Retrospective
June 24, 2015
One way to move this tragedy and the deceased in it past public ephemera and into history is to forever connect the loss of their lives to a national symbolic act against domestic terrorism: the legally-mandated abolition of our Confederate flag, and civil prosecution of anyone who waves it. … More Little Rock Nine, Four Little Girls, and One Confederate Flag: A Retrospective
“We have to give our black girls “the Talk”- and it’s not about sex…”…my essay on the horrifying McKinney, Texas, injustice, on SheKnows.com…
June 18, 2015
Racial profiling does not discriminate by gender…it’s time to tell our black girls the police may not be working for them. … More “We have to give our black girls “the Talk”- and it’s not about sex…”…my essay on the horrifying McKinney, Texas, injustice, on SheKnows.com…
Birthing a Slave: Reproduction and Inhumanity during America’s Slavery Era
June 8, 2015
Originally posted on Jubilo! The Emancipation Century:
Most people know of slavery, but we don’t know about slavery. Specifically, we don’t know how dehumanizing it was to be a slave. We might understand what it’s like to be denied freedom or dignity at an intellectual level. But for many of us, we don’t have a…
Real Talk: On The Loss of Olympian Kamara James and Black Women’s Mental Health
November 7, 2014
How did Kamara James, at 29, wind up mysteriously deceased in her U.S. apartment…with her last years on Earth clouded by mental illness, presumed schizophrenia, poverty and homelessness? … More Real Talk: On The Loss of Olympian Kamara James and Black Women’s Mental Health
