May 16, 2025 Y’all Still Buying Eggs? To all you Appalachian-living, no-teeth-having, Walmart-shopping, healthcare-lacking, MAGA hat-wearing inbreds—are you still buying eggs? What did yo’ mans have to give up to get…
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…
May 12, 2025 Dear Momma, Twenty-seven—the number of years you’ve been gone. It still hurts. I still don’t really celebrate Mother’s Day. I used to say after you were…
May 6, 2025 Fire I rose this morning smelling like smoke. But last night, I’d been cleansed. It was the fire, you see. Brothers around the flame. Our…
April 29, 2025 Desegregation vs. Integration — Part II When Desegregation Disguises Itself as Integration Desegregation without real integration wasn’t just a missed opportunity. It was a wound — one that never properly…
April 27, 2025 Desegregation vs. Integration — Part I Unlocking Doors vs. Building New Homes What is the difference between desegregation and integration? A question asked to a panel at a symposium on…
April 21, 2025 Lighthouse This Easter morning, I dropped Michelle and her mom off at Mass, then headed to church. Like most Easters in my life, I didn’t…
April 16, 2025 Commandments This is an excerpt from my book BLACK, please leave a comment and share your opinion. I used to watch The Ten Commandments every…
April 13, 2025 What Color Is God? Last night, I was flipping through channels and landed on ABC. They were airing The Ten Commandments — for the 52nd consecutive year. In…
April 11, 2025 Black Bodies Built the Game Before we were athletes, we were warriors, healers, scholars, and artists. We came from kingdoms and kinships that celebrated our bodies not for labor…
