The Raceless Gospel: Future- Casting in an Ass-Backward America

The Trump administration is actively trying to erase African American history and make the present insufferable for persons who are marginalized, criminalized and dehumanizingly categorized as “illegal” and “alien.” So, I work for a future I can live into. By this, I don’t simply mean move forward but actively resist by refusing to share in […]

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Five Years Later: Remembering George Perry Floyd Jr.

I never met him, but George Perry Floyd Jr. changed my life and the way I practice my faith. Like millions of people across the world, I said his name during the summer of 2020. But what echoed back to me was what it means to be human, and I’ve never heard it again so […]

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Nottaway Plantation Burns to the Ground and Illustrates Some Histories Are Not Worth Preserving

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 […]

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White Supremacists Are Working Over-Time and African Americans Are Resting

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 […]

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Women’s History Month| Remembering Toni Morrison and ‘Cinderella’s Stepsisters’

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 […]

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