My NYT Interview and Talking My Own Journey of Belonging to Blackness
A few weeks ago I wrote an op-ed published in the Brooklyn Eagle that shared the significance of my family ...
Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness Podcast: Announcement
New! Check out this new podcast show with Yndia Lorick-Wilmot called "Talking Journeys of Belonging to Blackness," which debuts ...
Racist Art Display + Halloween 2019
It’s Halloween y’all!
For folks who have been following this news story in the NYT, Amersterdam News, the NY ...
Fall: The Season of Transition and Preparation
As much as I enjoy the sun and beach weather, drinking
margaritas with friends and a slower pace of life that ...
June is Caribbean American Heritage Month
For folks that know me, celebrating my Caribbean heritage is an important aspect of my ethnic and personal identity that ...
The Nostalgia of School Daze
If you are an aficionado of Black “coming of age” comedies and commentaries that embed Black culture of the late ...
Musings on Black Love as Self-Love
In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, I went
through the exercise of identifying and framing, for my desk, three ...
Hair, Hair, oh,Glorious Hair is NOT Innocuous
Hair, hair, hair, hair... Grow it, show it... Long as I can grow it... My hair.. I ...
Sisterhood is Family
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.Oprah Winfrey
We often set aside the month of March ...
If you think Blackface is cool, then you support white supremacy–and we can’t be friends…
Full stop.
Wearing bronzer and foundation 7+ more shades darker than
your natural skin tone, exaggerating and bastardizing certain physical features,
dress, ...
Black History Month 2019: A Reflective Essay
seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our ...
The Journey Begins…
I once read somewhere that writers who don't accept they're on a journey into the unknown will never produce works ...
Lights winged seasons fish abundantly evening.
Void. Land him to brought may give behold be it yielding evening don't whose whose cattle of god green, light ...
Given void great you’re good appear have i also fifth.
Morning, may yielding deep, and make.
Said isn't fruitful as a bring creeping don't. Heaven. Living appear god hath deep is ...
Winged moved stars, fruit creature seed night.
Void. Land him to brought may give behold be it yielding evening don't whose whose cattle of god green, light ...