On May 15, 2025, the South’s largest surviving antebellum house burned to the ground, sparking debate over the legacy of American chattel slavery. Only a smoldering façade remained, inspiring celebration and memes shared on social media by people glad to see the symbol of human subjugation reduced to rubble and ashes. Completed in 1859, the 53,000-square-foot home […]
White supremacists in the current administration are working overtime to restore America to the Jim Crow era. Threatening African Americans with a good time by removing a requirement prohibiting segregated facilities in new federal contracts—though it is still illegal under U.S. law—didn’t move the community overall. We’ve literally “been there and done that.” Also, there […]
“My concern is provoked by the observation that so many who understand themselvesto be followers of Jesus, without hesitation, and apparently without thinking, embracethe ways and means of the culture as they go about their daily living ‘in Jesus’ name.’But the ways that dominate our culture have been developed either in ignorance or indefiance of […]
Before I was bullied by a female employer, Toni Morrison taught me about the ugliness of women who oppress other women. There were, unironically, two other women employees and they considered themselves sisters. And as the “Cinderella” story goes, they watched me suffer her unrelenting cruelty and, at times, participated in it. I was already […]
Race lacks the dimensions to measure the actual self and the linguistic capacity to affirm all human beings as co-equal. A minority- majority/ inferior- superior orientation, the makers of this pseudo- scientific delusion recreated human beings as colors: beige, that is mixed race, black, brown, red, yellow, and white or simpler still, white people and […]