Birthday Post #4: In 1971, when I first loved this song, I actually DIDN’T know what was ‘going on’ in local or national politics. I did not know about the …
It’s January 20th 2017 and I’m Thankful
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When I taught high schoolers, I used to do this visualization exercise where I turned off the lights in the room and told the students to pretend they had been …
Sandra Bland is Dead
Sandra Bland, a young, black woman on her way from Chicago to a new job in Prairie View Texas is dead by hanging, and we believe it was murder. If …
Finding My Birth Mother
It is October of 1992, I am twenty-six-years-old and eight months pregnant with my daughter, my first child.
Independence Day
In recent years, my celebration of Independence Day has mostly been an exercise in personal reflection. Because I’m an optimist, I try to focus on what it means to be …
Thank You, Ms. Angelou
At the podium of Coretta Scott King’s memorial, you broke out in song, “I open my mouth to the Lord, and I won’t turn back, no. I will go, I shall …
A 17th Birthday Tribute To My Twins
In the winter of 1995, I nearly lost my cool to an ultrasound tech who was merely the messenger of the news that I was pregnant with twins. I had …
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