Black Lives Matter Archives

The Chronicle of Higher Education has been tracking Anti-DEI Legislation and since 2023, 85 bills have been introduced in 28…

Over the past couple of years there has been an increase, in my life, of folks asking me for book…

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” – Zora Neale Hurston It has been nearly one year…

In early June, I launched an ambitious podcast, Being the Dot. The goal of Being the Dot was to discuss…

This essay is 526 words long. It is 526 words because that is how many seconds are in eight minutes…

The last few weeks have been some of the most complicated of my Black life. In just a two-week period,…

As a black woman AND an empath, I’ve found myself speechless and heavy-hearted lately. The tragic killings of George Flyod,…

One of my favorite lines from the classic film Apollo 13 is “Houston, we have a problem.” Well, the sad…

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all…

I was six, nearly seven, years old growing up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana when novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, activist, and…

This is my voice, my truths. Not in a complaining fashion, but in an answering the question fashion. The question…

We are black. Our father is white and gay. He adopted us from foster care 20 years ago. No one…

The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police has rocked our nation. The reactions of peace loving individuals all over…