As my heart weeps for the unarmed man, a Black man who was shot 5 times in the back by a White police officer. One a father to be, and the other a father of four. How could this have escalated from a broken tail light? I don’t want to believe that a police officer…
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To Thee I Will Sing: No Justice, No Peace. (2 of 4 postings)
November 29, 2014 – December 22, 2014. (These are the start dates and finish dates for each essay in the “To Thee I Will Sing” essay series). Round two. Examining “national and historic narratives of race.” In 1998, President Clinton developed a wide sweeping initiative to examine race related health disparities. I am one of…
Triumph of Selma: Duvernay’s Cinematic Mastery of Blackness While Walking The Tight Wire of Whiteness
I saw the explosive, powerful, and touching movie, #Selma. Selma is one of my all time favorite movies because of its touching portrayal of human complexity created within narrow psychological margins. Selma also tries to correct the cinematic over-emphasis of the over-indulgence of seeing Black history through Black male experience. The movie recasts the lives of African Americans…
Why Are There No Black Women In The US Senate?
I recently read a fascinating article on the number of women in the United States Senate. I was struck by the title of the article, The Secret History of Women in the Senate” and thought it should have been titled “The Secret History of White Women in the Senate.” Why are black women political voices so…
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