Something To Think About
When I read about Alena Analeigh Wicker, a young thirteen-year-old Black girl who has been accepted into medical school, I read the article several times just to be sure. She will attend the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine. I was struck by the fact she would be attending medical school at … Read more
Involuntary relocation is what the Texas School Board of Education is how they want to describe people who were sold into slavery.
“We are all of us dreamers of dreams, On visions our childhood is fed; And the heart of the child is unhaunted, it seems, By the ghosts of dreams that are dead.” - William Herbert Carruth
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I have full cause of weeping: but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I’ll weep. – King Lear Weep For the Elders of Buffalo. Weep Because those Elders of Buffalo die at the hands of an eighteen-year-old racist. Weep Because this murderer didn’t think those Black Elders had the right … Read more
“You may write me down in history, with your bitter twisted lies, you may trod , me in the very dirt, But still, like dust, I’ll rise” Maya Angelou Just as the sun rises quietly in the sky and chases away the darkness of night, Ketanji Brown Jackson dispatched Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, … Read more
How many more babies have to die before this country grows a pair and stops this stupidity around the second amendment?
Will Smith had what I would call a chivalric moment when he bitch slapped comedian Chris Rock.
You pass out our history papers, you place mine on my desk, and in big, bold red letters, I read, ‘nice job, good insight.’ My smile turns to a frown when I see the grade B+. I compared my paper to a classmate, she received an A+ for only writing half of what I wrote, … Read more
Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz Believe Black Women Don’t Have What It Takes to Be a Supreme Court Justice When President Biden announced he would appoint a Black female to replace retiring Justice Bryer, his announcement was hailed by many and condemned by others. Those leaning toward the progressive side said it’s about time, … Read more
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