Tag: blackhistory
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Ours & Ours: #BHM2022
There is violence that exists at the root of black culture. Weaved into the very thread and DNA of all Black American beings. After all, our beginnings on this land were that of force, torture, and deprivation, and every other word you associate with a trauma that looms large and long enough to reverberate over…
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Black History Month: Week 1: The Ifs, Ands, or Buts
I ran in the house crying and screaming into my mother’s arms. I just left basketball tryouts where the coach told me I was too small to play. I was 8 or 9 and tall for my age. My long legs helped me with playground games of dodgeball and foot races from the front door…
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Toni Morrison: Queen of the Black Gaze
Chloe Ardelia Winford changed my life. She was gigantic and beautiful. You may know her as Toni Morrison. As of August 5, physical presence is gone, but her spirit and legacy live on forever. I was assigned Beloved in high school and her work introduced me the essence of being a woman. Now that I am…
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Black History 2019: Week 3: Is Change Gonna Come?
I watched a documentary on Sam Cooke about a year ago but a Netflix recently released a new doc and I was intrigued to see an updated telling of Sam’s persona, music, business, and death. Through this work, I was able to see his “awakening” of his worth as a black man. His music had…
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Black History Month: Week 2: A N G E R
For the past couple of years, my black history posts have given a nod to the past. But this year I want to look at the present. This day and age are not ideal for the black American. Just some events this week reminds me of just how far we have to go. Sandra Bland…
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Black History Week 4: Change
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t…
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Black History Month: Week 1: Perseverance
Perseverance: steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. There are many words that can be used for Black Americans. Perseverance flows through our veins bolder, stronger and more priceless than the blood one can actually see. I reminisce on a country girl from MS who was abused by her own family…
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Black History Month: Week 4: Rewrite History
This is not the same America from fifty years ago. In both good and bad ways this country and world for that matter, have been shaped by circumstances that humans have both control and no control over. Being idle is not an option, being uniformed is not even possible. Collectively we all have a lot…
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Black History Month: Week 3: Call to Action
The magnificent album created by the incomparable Solange Knowles called A Seat At The Table has a song called “Where Do We Go”. That is a relevant question. Between racial tension being at an all-time high, the most controversial presidency this generation has ever seen, along with the fact that we are over-educated and underpaid…
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Black History Month: Week 2: REFLECTION
Do you know what it means to be black? Does anyone really know?The first post I ever created on this site was about blackness, but to be honest blackness is so unique and multifaceted that I have a hard time keeping one definition. It evolves as much as the person who is manifesting it. I encourage…