On Independence Day in 2020, a clamoring throng toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus Baltimore neighborhood of Little Italy. When the cheering protesters dragged it down and sunk it beneath the depths of Inner Harbor, the statue became the latest … Read the rest
“If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” James Baldwin
“The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The … Read the rest
“I’se still climbin’, and life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” Langston Hughes
“I am not tragically colored……I do not weep at the world.” Zora Neale Huston
“To be a Negro in this country and to be … Read the rest
“My freedom doesn’t end where your fears begin.”
“Fake crisis, Dr. Fauci is wrong!”
“The cure is deadlier than COVID, no virus cancels the constitution!”
Less than one month into the nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the Coronavirus, … Read the rest
Picture it: elementary school, sixth grade homeroom, sometime during the 1980’s. I say something to friends that a white male classmate (I’ll call him Tim) disagrees with. The context of the conversation escapes me now, but I will always remember … Read the rest