The Revolution Will Be Written
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 began with a shot. In 1861, there was only one United…
Yesterday was homecoming and my 45th high school class reunion. The class of ’80, the first desegregated class to matriculate through the Evanston Public School District. When we began our educational journey as five- and…
In Tulsa, 1921, the cover story was “an uprising.” White mobs, backed by police, burned down Greenwood and dropped fire from the sky. The truth never had to be proven; the accusation was enough to…
No paper trail.No midwife’s mark.No certificate to prove the day. Just Marlboro County fields,tobacco barns breathing their smoke,and the cry of the first of twelve —a Black child under Jim Crow skies. If he went…
From DEI to W.E.I.: Quantico Wasn’t a Briefing — It Was a Whiteness War Sermon Pete Hegseth just told the entire U.S. military that you’re fat, ugly, stupid, weak, and lazy — and that the…
Remember Minority Report with Tom Cruise? The precogs could predict who was going to commit murder and the cops would swoop in before it happened. Crime nearly vanished because they followed the pattern. We don’t…
Tonight, it’s going to be interesting to see what monologue Jimmy Kimmel comes out with. Will he be muted? Sanitized? Forced to issue a public apology to Charlie Kirk’s family for his “insensitivity”? I don’t…
I never thought I’d be thankful that our washing machine broke. Truth be told, I hate laundromats. I’d rather walk barefoot down a gravel alley than sit under those flickering fluorescent lights, waiting for my…
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The last few days my head has been a little muzzy; I’ve been in a weird place. At first, I thought it was just the constant barrage of ridiculous news cycles. I kept hearing a…