Acknowledging Chicago Artist
They are all from Chicago and are very active and engaged in their specific crafts.
Open Letter to Mike Huckabee
Part of my spiritual growth is standing for the marginalized, the forsaken, and the forgotten. That is the life I work to live daily in honor of my Lord Yeshua.
White Jesus, Black Plight
We must root out racism in religion so it can be rooted out in the laws that are instituted from a such a viewpoint. Otherwise we remain one nation under fraud, divisible, with liberty and justice for the rich, the wealthy, and the White.
Ramblings…
Black people wake up and no matter what trauma we experience as a community, we have to go into work …
Facebook Post Gone Wrong
I have seen several Black men, FBF, and associates post the featured image. They caption it “A Black Woman’s Worst …
Living While Black
The eerie feeling when a police officer pulls up behind you. He was behind me for about 6 blocks. I …
Grace & Grief: Heart Healing
I was grateful to interview the Founder and Executive Director of Grace and Grief. LaSandra Hutchinson opened up the world …
Where Did I Go Wrong?
My son Where did I go wrong What song didn’t I sing of love What gift didn’t I give from the heart What birthday did I miss What event didn’t I attend
Free flowing
African history was not a part of my upbringing. I was about survival. No different from any other African child …
A Posture of the Heart
I fasted recently. It’s a part of the Christian walk that I hadn’t embarked on seriously in quite sometime. Yet, …
PTSD: Present Traumatic Stress Disorder
We’ve been taught to fight each other, steal from one another, kill one another, reign down terror and rage on our children, leave our women, leave our kids, hustle illegally to get by because we knew America has always been devoid of humanity.
The Miseducation of America
I wanted to get some thoughts down on tonight. Last Saturday I was in tears listening to a colleague (white) …
Unarmed, Outmanned, and Black: Jogging added to the list…
…I am beginning to feel the spirit of Elijah. But I am not at Mt. Carmel up against the prophets of Baal. I am in Mt. United States of America up against racism.
The New Jim Crow: Challenging how we feel about “us”.
Yet, if I don’t shift my mindset towards those young Black men I don’t know and assume the worst of, we will never break the cycle inflicted on us by forces that have put us in the condition, put the knife in our hand and causes us to continually blame ourselves for our own problem.
I got Jordan’s but no internet: The Pride in Poverty
There is no judgment or ill intent towards anyone, it’s only a challenge for us all to re-evaluate what really matters.
The End of Possibility
I have never cared for most board meetings. If there is no willful intent to actively listen and address parental concerns regarding administrative changes then don’t open board meetings to the public. Parents were not heard and that corporate adage of “the board of directors knows what’s best” is arrogant.
Where Brooklyn @
Where Brooklyn at? New York, big city of dream Came in the form of teens Like animals, they ravaged A …
The Value of White Lives, When Black Cops Shoot
If you want to know the value of White lives in America you can look in several directions. You can …