August 4, 2025 Better (not) Call Tyrone This one is personal. I’m sharing it here because I know some of y’all will feel this too—maybe too well. I’m not writing him…
July 25, 2025 The Ghost in the Mulch Pile Originally written August 2022 This weekend I had an “ah-ha” moment—one of those realizations that many Black people may already know deep down, but…
July 14, 2025 Chosen Few ’25 For the second year in a row, I made the pilgrimage to the Chosen Few Picnic & Festival. Last year I didn’t know what…
July 12, 2025 Black Joy – Chosen Few ’24 Getting ready for Chosen Few 2025! Post to come later… House Music! As soon as we hit the parking lot, we could hear it….
July 6, 2025 Independence (Day) I used to be a flag-waving, fireworks-shooting, parade-attending, cookout-going patriot on the 4th. Proud African American. Two things changed that.Knocked that patriotism shit right…
June 24, 2025 African Centered Curriculum Below is the transcript of my speech addressed to the school board last night. Starting at minute 57:00 My name is Tracey Wallace, a…
June 19, 2025 Before I Sip My Strawberry Soda Galveston, Texas, 1863. Slavery had not ended here. Not even close. Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation — begrudgingly. Not because he was…
May 26, 2025 Before It Was Memorial Day Before the barbecue. Before the beach trips and blowout sales. Before America made it about summer. We made it sacred. May 1, 1865, Charleston,…
May 19, 2025 May 19th Belongs to the Fire Starters: Malcolm & Yuri I’m not here to litigate who killed Malcolm.Not here to debate why the FBI feared him, or how America labeled him a threat while…
May 15, 2025 MOVE I’m a few days late writing this. May 13, 2025, marked what would have been the 40th anniversary of this horrific event. But I…