Editorial
My grandmother, Lucille “Big Mama” Allen, spoke this all too well and many times during her lifetime. I know when you see this you...
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Believe me when I say a change is gonna come! By Cheryl Smith I went home to reunite with classmates, friends, mere acquaintances and...
Some roads have a way of remembering your footsteps. I grew up in Plaquemine, Louisiana, in an America where segregation did not bother to...
I have been a member of a Divine Nine fraternity for a very long time. To be clear, it has been over 50 years...
My grandmother, Lucille “Big Mama” Allen, spoke this all too well and many times during her lifetime. I know when you see this you...
As I watched the interviews of Black men, most of them fathers and some who aren’t; I beamed with pride as they each talked...
How is that possible? How can it be that words are at risk of obsolescence? Words are the very measure of civilization. I would...
By Marc Morial “These bills are about competitiveness versus complacency. They’re about opportunity versus decay. They’re about leading the world or continuing to let...
By Askia Muhammad One of my first, and most chilling, experiences as a young member of the Nation of Islam, selling the Muhammad Speaks...
I’m so looking forward to my weekends. During the State Fair of Texas, my colleagues and I work seven days a week for almost...
Most times, I indulge in a process I call a “parallel didactic.” My parallel didactics attempt to tell two stories at the same time...
Without fail, mighty words would always shoot forth when Lucille “Big Mama” Allen stood in the doorway between the kitchen and the “big room”...
I love teaching! When I was eight-years-old, my friends were playing “house” and “doctor.” I was in another room with my sister, two younger...
Don’t feel language deficient or outside the loop if you can’t discern this title. If you were born in my generation, you knew to...
