Lord, Have Mercy…Good Grief

This woman was terrorized and STILL doesn’t recognize the violence inflicted on her. She is not healthy enough to give parenting advice.

Don’t Overlook the Comments to Shanita Hubbard

It would help JB (I don’t know how the NYT determines their picks) to read Dan T. Carter’s book, The Politics of Rage about George Wallace; especially the part about his 1968 presidential campaign. He offers this: The candidates appeal, said NBC’s Douglas Kiker, a native southerner, was transparently simple. George Wallace had seemingly looked out upon

Did You Read This?

The Blue Line

A Town Divided over Blue Lives Matter

Why is the Child Crying?

These are the kinds of questions my father taught me to ask, alas. Adam, he would say, What is the fundamental question one must ask of the world? I would think of and posit many things, but the answer was always the same: Why is the child crying?  -Alice Walker Possessing the Secret of Joy

Models Monday: The Kiss

In Memoriam It seems that folk no longer read comedian and activist Dick Gregory’s 1964 autobiography Nigger—actually, I don’t remember the Malcolm X t-shirt wearing, Public Enemy listening generation of mine discussing the work either. The 1990s political climate may have informed my decision to seek out this book. The back cover told a profoundly

85-year-old Memphis Sanitation Worker Can Perhaps Retire

After working 63 years for the city of Memphis, Elmore Nickleberry, 85, may finally reap the benefits of marching with Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. The city intends to award Mr. Nickleberry, along with 13 other survivors of the 1968 sanitation strike, a $50K tax-free grant. I’m not sure how $50,000 is supposed to

Both Killed by Cops, The Families Awarded Almost the Same Amount of Money by Lilly Workneh

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Patricia McKissack, Author of Flossie and the Fox, dies at 72

 

Track Changing Thoughts on J.D. Vance of the NYT

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