Goodbye Chick-fil-A!

A conversation between two friends. Friend 1: I am deeply disturbed by the anti-gay, anti-black, pro-trump agenda of the Chick-fil-A Corporation. Their message of intolerance and bigotry is wrong, and no amount of Polynesian sauce can change the fact that the whole organization wants to keep same-sex couples from getting married and keep Trump in …

Should Juneteenth become a Federal Holiday?

Now, in this new wave of Black Lives Matters where we as a Black people are finally getting traction with having our concerns and struggles recognized and address, when the world is seeing the struggle of Black Americans and standing with us, we are calling for Juneteenth to become a nationally recognized holiday...

Navigating BLM in an Interracial Marriage/#HappyLovingDay

A rare vacation for two, 2017. If you know me, you know that my husband is White. We have been married for eight years, and I knew when I met him that I would love him. Not because he was White, or handsome, but because he was intelligent and interesting. He was not what he …

#Blackout 2.0

The Memphis Sanitation Workers strike and the Montgomery Bus Boycotts were longer than a week. Why shouldn't the Blackout be as long?

We are all Hurting, Reflecting, and Venting

Like many of my friends, and family members, I want to have my say about recent events. It is not because I feel that what I have to say is especially important. Actually, I feel that my words are echoes of the thousands of people across the country who were horrified by the events of …