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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If the Truth Be Told

“Ain’t that the truth.” It’s an expression I heard often as a child. It was said to emphasize what someone knows to be the case based on lived experience. I sometimes wonder what foundational lies would come crashing down in our world if the truth be told. If all the dyads got together— black/ white, […]

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Trump’s dinner meeting takes America back to immoral eugenics theories

Former president Donald Trump recently met with an anti-Semite and a white supremacist. It’s no joke and his party knows it as they continue to distance themselves from him. But it is going to take more than a firm rebuke or a press conference. It requires something more than denouncing, even if done repeatedly. White […]

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What Buffalo is known for now

Buffalo, New York is known for large snow accumulations and buffalo wings. It is where I moved to at the age of sixteen, making both a Southerner and a Northerner out of me. It is the home of the Buffalo Bills and a little over a quarter million people, including my mother and siblings. On […]

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The Storming of the U.S. Capitol is the American Way

Yesterday, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol Building, broke windows, pushed against doors, destroyed the offices of elected officials and insisted that Trump is the President of the United States. This is after they have been indulged by court cases heard and recounts in several states. Not many have been arrested to date and videos of […]

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