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The Weeping Time and The New York Times Sunday Magazine
August 17, 2019 This week is an important week for many reasons. It represents the 400th anniversary of the presence of people of African descent in America. Today is also the birthday of Jamaican born...
TURNING POINT: WORDS MATTER
August 3, 2019 Dear Readers, First I want to say that my heart goes out to the many families who lost loved ones this weekend and last across America. There really are no words of condolences that are enough. I am in the midst of preparing a new post in response to...
Could it happen here?
In recent days, some citizens in our midst have called for others to "be sent back to where they came from." I am thankful that those who repeated such a disturbing chant do not represent all of us but for any who are convinced this was just an idle chant, like the...
Keeping Families Together: Who we are vs. Who we were
In the sweltering heat, my thoughts are with the families at the border. The piece below I wrote last year and sadly, the situation though it has changed for the young woman in question (she has been thankfully reunited with her family), many others are facing a...
Reparations 101: Harriet Tubman and the Reparations debate
I wrote the piece below a year ago which I am reposting because it shows how even Harriet Tubman's story speaks to the rationale for Reparations. Almost 200,000 slaves fought in the US Civil War and less than half of them received pensions for their war efforts....
Reparations 101: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
Today is Juneteenth Day. Juneteenth is the day that many African Americans celebrate as Emancipation Day because it was on June 19, 1865 that Union troops entered Galveston, Texas and freed the enslaved. Though the Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1...
