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 …
Motivational
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, …
The Miseducation of America
I wanted to get some thoughts down on tonight. Last Saturday I was in tears listening to a colleague (white) …
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.
Where Brooklyn @
Where Brooklyn at? New York, big city of dream Came in the form of teens Like animals, they ravaged A …
A Day to Remember
Today was amazing. I had the opportunity to perform at Facebook Chicago. It was the moment of a lifetime and …
The minority in the room
I learned not to judge, walk out, or be rash; translated, not walk away because anger at my child which won’t allow me see how deep she’s hurting.
Memories
I am a message, a call, a text away! I don’t have all the answers but I do have the resources. You don’t have to live life burdened anymore.
Purpose Finding. A letter from my 80 year old self!
Dearest Tony, I’m 80 years old now and there’s something I’d like to say to you. Focus on your strengths. …
Invitation to Dinner
Hi Depression, Sorry I missed your call earlier, but I am calling you now. I know it’s that time of …
Reaching Our Young People
When five students raised their hand when I asked if they had lost a sibling to gun violence but only one said they had received counseling…
The Journey to Ghana
I struggle here, in America
We hunted like wild game
Emasculated daily
Images of torture
Places in the south we still can’t go
How Can Dad Help?
Yet, it’s the burden every woman and adolescent girl must carry. It makes me think how fortunate I am as a man, a husband, and a father.
Evaluate, Educate, Elevate: A Chicago non-profits goal.
One of the major highlights of the night was honoring two members of the community who embody the principles and goals of the foundation.
Perspective: A Married View of Single Parents
Single parents across the country, male and female, go hard everyday as single parents. If my wife and I get tired or exhausted and we are together, how much more for the single parents? My focus is single women because I’ve been raised by three. Single moms have to put