I enjoy a good, tossed salad. There’s something about the mixture of the various ingredients and items that maintain their individual characteristics yet come together to make for a delicious nutritional combination. Such is the case for a healthy community. … Continue reading America’s Tossed Salad
Mirage: noun, Webster Definition: “something that comes from or exists only in the mind and is not real” Aspirationally intended by many as a helpful and seemingly harmless ideal that is metaphorically communicated in ways such as ideals of the … Continue reading The March Edition, The Mirage of Assimilation
The largest beneficiaries of Affirmative Action/DEI are white women, followed by Hispanic groups, Asians coming in third, disabled individuals fourth, veterans fifth, and finally, the group that receives the least amount of DEI support; that’s right, you guessed it, Black … Continue reading Far Right Attacks on DEI, a Reaction to Black Upward Social Mobility
African Americans have always valued education. Knowledge is power, and education is freedom. We have held these truths to be self-evident along the course of the long Black freedom struggle. My forthcoming book, The Battle for the Black Mind (Legacy … Continue reading Education and the Long Black Freedom Struggle
Black ingenuity has not only pushed boundaries but redefined them. It is all about creating and innovating, even when times get tough. Continue reading The Table We Built: How Black Striving, Ingenuity, and Resistance Shaped America
This is our national truth: America would not be America without the wealth from Black labor, without Black striving, Black ingenuity, Black resistance. So much of the music, the food, the language, the art, the scientific advances, the athletic renown, … Continue reading February’s Theme: Black Labor to Black Striving, Black Ingenuity, Black Resistance
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, your hands can’t hit what your eyes can’t see.” The one and only Muhammad Ali, AKA the G.O.A.T. On Sunday June 4, 1967, the Cleveland Summit or the Muhammad Ali Summit, as … Continue reading Agents of Change
Despite the great amount of evil in the world, which seems to be on the rise at present, I believe we still have reason to hope for God’s redemption of the world. However, the hope I speak of is not … Continue reading Theologian of Action: Reflecting on Dr. King to Strategize for the Future
We have helped to build America with our labor, strengthened it with our faith, and enriched it with our song. ― Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune The inescapable influence of unpaid Black labor in the creation of America’s economic wealth is … Continue reading The Hands of Black Folk
