The Power of a Question

I had been looking for answers as to why God created me black after studying what Du Bois refers to in The Souls of Black Folk as “the problem of the color line”; the concept of “the Negro problem”; and socially defined black people as “the white man’s burden,” the title of the English poet […]

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The Ten Race Commandments

I’ve been attracted to the story of race and its characters since I was about twelve years old.  My interest is not reactionary, a response to a slur or a derogatory comment meant to degrade or to cause me to question my presence in the world.  Instead, it began in a classroom with my introduction to the slave narratives […]

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