My friend Junious and I were in a barn on top of a mountain in West Virginia. The barn was filled with Black people dancing to traditional Black music being played by Black musicians. It was a beautiful and wonderful moment. We weren’t dancing, though. I could tell he wanted to, but I hadn’t made my point yet. He stood …
It’s another week in American where Black pain is on display while we grapple with the aftermath of the Kenosha, Wis., shooting of an unarmed Black man—Jacob Blake. Reports are that Blake was breaking up a fight between two women, and at some point the police were called for a domestic incident. The video that I had the misfortune of …
Like many of you, I have been sheltering in place at home since mid-March when I shut down my Boston office. Though I did spend late-May to late-June in Chicago when my Dad was dying, upon my return to Maine after my Dad’s death, I hunkered back down in my house. To date, I have only left my island community …
Since societies prioritize their privileged classes, those classes get to make the rules. The rules they make reinforce their privileges and so the cycle goes. The core problem with this, of course, is that this value isn’t real. Human worth is decided differently by different groups at different times and it is largely environmental if not completely arbitrary. People on …
“I bore witness to the real man, in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.” — Michael Cohen Michael Cohen, after apologizing to the country for enabling the monster that enabled the plague, has written …
Since the world shut down in mid-March, I had stayed home with the exception of the month I spent in Chicago with my father when he was dying and three trips I have made to the mainland for errands, including a doctor’s visit. A few days ago, I made my fourth trek to the outside world and immediately as I …
My mother and I can fight. Like, we can yell and scream at the top of our lungs sometimes. Last summer my daughters had friends over and my mother and I got in a fight about…I don’t even remember…but we were screaming at each other so loud my daughters (they tell me now) took their friends and went far away …
Kamala Harris is biracial. Her mother is Indian and her father is Jamaican, but in this country, that means she’s Black. There is a lot expected of Black women in this country that is not expected of anyone else, and all of these things are expected of Kamala Harris. She is expected to like certain music and food. She is …
From the moment that enslaved African women were brought to the United States until this present moment, Black women have had to endure painful stereotypes that seek to define us and to dehumanize us. As a result, for Black women, finding the space and the freedom to exist as our own fully actualized and authentic selves is a continual struggle. …
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Happy Friday! It’s a gorgeous day up in my corner of the world and way too beautiful to be writing a blog post today. So I present you with the Friday Round-Up a list of blog posts this week from other bloggers that blew my mind. Perhaps if you need to kill some time or have a quiet moment you can check them out. http://ravingblacklunatic.blogspot.com/ Check out this cat, I have been a fan of his work forever. http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/ Good stuff here as well http://sweetersalt.com/ A Maine blogger who talks fashion and food…the best of both worlds http://paganchild-starmommy.blogspot.com/2011/03/keeping-focused.html A new blog that offers words of wisdom for all of us. http://mscleaver.com/ Another Mainer who for Lent is giving up pants, she is also a crafty gal If you have any links to good blogs, feel free to leave em. It’s my hope to make the Friday Round Up a regular feature at my new home specifically I would live to shine some light and love on smaller bloggers. It’s hard out here in this blogosphere with so many good blogs to choose from and so little time so let’s help everyone get a slice of the pie. I will be back on Monday, at that time I will unveil some ideas I have around monetizing things but You May Also Like: No related posts.
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Calling All White People, Part 46: You already know the answer
Calling All White People, Part 46 TODAY’S EPISODE: Stop asking other people (especially POC) what you should do [To find other installments of “Calling All White People,” click here] BGIM recently posed a question online—I think it was on Facebook but it really doesn’t matter—asking people what “Black Lives Matter” means to them beyond just putting up signs or …
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