Every day around sunset, my nephew and I go for a walk around our neighborhood. It’s not an ideal time of the day to do so, but we live in a city where it’s hot almost year-round. Evenings are the only hours that offer relief from the heat.
As we…
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.”
‒Nelson Mandela
When I was a kid, I read the book Ender’s Game and I remember loving it. But now…
Television and movies have given the world some great character relationships over the years, but like the double edged sword it is, they’ve also given us some not so great character relationships. And today I want to focus on some of the not so great (and just inappropriate) on screen…
The trial of Calvin Jamison was all anyone was talking about those days. It was as if he had just killed his best friend the day before but in reality, it had been almost a year.
I only remembered Calvin vaguely. He had been two grade levels above me in…
Red
A nation birthed from the desire to be free
The color of pale men who didn't belong in the African sun
The blood spilled to preserve an identity untouched by a new world
White
The color of men who watched from a distance
Hiding behind Black faces
"Uncolonized" they say as they…
Tragic mulatto: an archetypical mixed-race person (a "mulatto"), who is assumed to be sad, or even suicidal, because they fail to completely fit in the "white world" or the "black world"
The tragic mulatto archetype has been around for over a century, but I had never heard of it until…
