Not captured, not mastered Enslaved only to what I choose Never stood on an auction block This freedom I did not lose Never lived on a plantation Worked from can’t see to can’t see Lift your countenance when I approach And don’t feel sorry for me Don’t judge me based on history And […]
My husband and I moved from Washington, D.C. to Mount Rainier, Maryland this past August. I confess that we are both bibliophiles but I suppose there is no need for confession as I had nearly fifty boxes of proof. Still, more remain stored and we would never think of giving them away. We need them or […]
Recently, I led a workshop on the race-less life and after reviewing the oral, physical and later pseudo-scientific origins of race, I asked the participants, “How do you label race?” I’m sure that the question is an unfamiliar one as race does the labeling in our society. We are seemingly lined up at birth, waiting to […]
In physics, the black hole is “a region of spacetime for which nothing, not even light (due to its massive size), can escape.” Apart of the theory of general relativity, anything that falls into the black hole is unable to be observed by outsiders. The idea of this possibility was penned in a letter written by geologist John […]
“Then they came to Bethsaida. They brought the blind man to Him and begged Him to touch Him. He took the blind man by the hand and brought him out of the village. Spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked, “Do you see anything?” He looked up and said, “I […]