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What We Owe Eve
I am a genealogy enthusiast who has spent countless hours tracing my roots back through the generations, often discovering historical gems that connect me to people I had never heard of whose survival and life choices resulted in my existence. It is a sobering and...
Father & Friend: ‘Every Time I Look at You, I See Myself’
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LouAnne Johnson Responds to ‘Dangerous Minds’ Questions
After writing the post Waiting For...A White Lady?, I did some further research and found that LouAnne Johnson has a website where she posts articles and answers questions about her current work as a teacher and her past experiences writing the book "My Posse Don't Do...
Waiting For…A White Lady?
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The Only Thing Greater Than Yourself…
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The Darker the Berry…The More Invisible?
Los Angeles Times Magazine celebrated the "50 Most Beautiful Women in Film" in their February, 2011 edition. Someone at the magazine was given the task of deciding what beautiful looks like and they came up with the following 50:
Louis CK: ‘Here’s How Great it Is to Be White’
One comedian's take on White privilege. WARNING...EXPLICIT LANGUAGE. [embedplusvideo height="269" width="430" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/TG4f9zR5yzY?fs=1"...
DeBlackifying Barack Obama
The fact that President Barack Obama is the product of an interracial marriage has led folks of every ethnicity to argue about whether he should be calling himself "Black." Many people are of the opinion that he should identify himself as "Biracial" to...
Are Will and Jada Pimping the Mini-Mes?
How stupid unobservant am I? (Rhetorical question. Don't answer that.) Um, yeah, so I just (like, just this minute while writing this piece) figured out that Jaden and Willow smith's given names are tributes to their parents. Will/Willow. Jaden/Jada. Duh. Okay. I...
The intern who saved Rep. Giffords’ life is gay, Mexican and naturalized?
An insane (and insanely armed) white guy shoots Arizona's first Jewish Congresswoman and the man who is credited with helping to save her life is an openly gay, naturalized American citizen of Mexican descent. (You're awesome, Daniel.) This 20-year-old hero heard...
I Socked My 3-Year Old Daughter in the Eye: Janet Jackson Made Me Do It
My three-year-old is a handful. She has more energy than any toddler I've ever seen. Sometimes she just runs around in circles in the living room trying to use up what seems to be a never ending store of kinetic abundance. The day I socked her in the eye (did I...