Marcus the Macro Man Ok, so Marcus Garvey didn’t have microaggressions in his vocabulary. Nobody did back then. Furthermore, macro was Garvey’s thing, not micro. Garvey didn’t do anything on a small scale. Garvey believed in BIGness: he BIGGED himself … Continue reading Marcus Garvey on Microaggressions
As a mother, I have tried to use Black history to inspire my son to look at the achievements of other individuals who share his cultural heritage. It has been a way to plant the seeds of inspiration which will … Continue reading Celebrating Neurodiversity: Black History’s Untold Stories
“The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power – and no one holds power forever. White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live. Rather, the white man … Continue reading Inspired by James Baldwin, Here are Twelve Steps for White America In A Nutshell
Three Fifths welcomes new contributing writer, William Watson. We decided to have some fun so we asked William to write his own book review! Kevin Robinson Book Review of William Watson’s Twelve Steps for White America: for a United States … Continue reading A MS Redneck, A Teenage Alcoholic Reading James Baldwin, and a VP with a CRT Doctorate Walk Into a Bar
Cole Arthur Riley. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us. Convergent Books, 2002. ISBN 978-0-593-23979-7.In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Susan Moore, an African-American physician in Indiana, was hospitalized with the virus. She caught … Continue reading Book Review of Cole Arthur Riley’s This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us
An excerpt from The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate We don’t know what we don’t allow ourselves to know. But when I began to know—after I’d picked my jaw up off the floor enough times to wonder … Continue reading Imagining My Way In
The first time I read Richard Wright’s 1937 essay, “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch,” it took my breath away. I stumbled across it while flipping through a fat volume I’d checked out of the library, The … Continue reading What I Never Knew: Reading Richard Wright
Hope is Spirit Work From underground, hope springs eternal During my conversation with poet Drew E. Jackson, who writes at the intersection of justice, peace, and contemplation, he told me about two realities. There is a reality that we know, … Continue reading Birthing New Realities
Dr. Martha S. Jones’s book, Vanguard introduces us to hidden figures of American democracy. The sacredness of our vote is demonstrated by these women’s sacrificial quest for equality under the law. Black women had (and still have) a unique struggle … Continue reading Highlights from “VANGUARD: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All”
It is April, and the Easter egg hunt is drawing nigh. The eggs are fitly prepared with the infilling of sweetness, and aromas from the most delectable nuggets and treats, give or take a coin or two. The excitement builds … Continue reading Learning to Love Yourself
By Carl McRoy Carl McRoy [CM]: Hello Dr. Thompson. Thank you for sharing your time and talent with me on behalf of ThreeFifths.online. Our theme for March is “Times of Refreshing” and is backlit by the philosophy of “sankofa.” The … Continue reading ThreeFifths QnA with Dr. Christopher C. Thompson
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