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
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