March 11, 2026 Slavery Is White People’s History Once again, Dr. Daniel Black dropped a gem that forced me to sit still long enough to let it rearrange my thinking. This is…
March 11, 2026 Bombs Over Baghdad Don’t pull that thang out unless you plan to bang. Shoulda held back. But you throwed a punch. Outkast warned us about this kind…
March 11, 2026 Little Girls I sat with this for days before writing anything down. The bombing of a girls’ school in Iran kept circling back into my thoughts,…
January 14, 2026 Conditional Outrage We watched as police murdered a person in the streets of Minneapolis.Clear video. Shot by the people. Police brutality in real time. Excessive force…
January 12, 2026 When Whiteness Stopped Being an Invitation “Well, I think that a lot of people were very badly treated,” Trump replied. “White people were very badly treated, where they did extremely well…
November 3, 2025 Black Jesus Or the Original Deep Fake (White Jesus) excerpted from Circumventing Your Religion to Find My God(s) Maybe it was that picture of The Last…
October 26, 2025 My Favorite Girl …you brought me in this world Happy Ancestral Birthday, Mom! As I celebrate your 95th year—only 68 on this side of the plane, way…
October 15, 2025 What Are You Going to Do After America? The storm of this administration is getting stronger faster than anyone could have imagined. Well, I guess you ignored the forecast—Project 2025 wasn’t a…
October 14, 2025 When Red and Blue Go to War I. The First Civil War: A Lesson in Division The first Civil War didn’t begin with a grand declaration or a congressional vote. It…
October 12, 2025 45th Reunion Yesterday was homecoming and my 45th high school class reunion. The class of ’80, the first desegregated class to matriculate through the Evanston Public…