Dec 28, 20192 minUjima Requires Lots of Gratitude May & June were by far my best months this year. And by best, I mean they were the two months when I felt most successful and when I did...
Dec 28, 20194 minSelf-Determination is My Bag, Baby!... which is not to say that kujichagulia is an easy principle to master but it's definitely familiar. I repeat this same declaration of...
Dec 27, 20193 minUmoja Habari GaniIt's worth pointing out up front that I'm notorious for going backward in order to move forward. Meaning I will not be getting to the...
Apr 28, 20195 minIf Big Dick Energy Tastes Like Collard Greens, Lizzo is the Pot Likka!Listening to Lizzo’s new album, Cuz I Love You, last Friday night, two things quickly occurred to me: (1) I just cannot keep up with this...
Apr 28, 20197 min#SheThePeople2020: Against Skyrocketing Black Maternal Mortality & Knee-Jerk Praise of White WomenA few days ago, I wrote a somewhat long Twitter thread re: Black maternal health in crisis, #BlackMaternalHealthWeek that just ended...
Nov 3, 20186 minBody and VoiceA few weeks ago a friend sent me Hilton Als' latest article in The New Yorker - a profile on U.S. Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith - along...
Oct 27, 20182 minI'm a Writer That Isn't Reading EnoughI know you're probably wondering what kind of oxymoronic clickbait statement is this. And, my answer is that it's the kind made by a...
Oct 17, 20181 minA Fresh Start - With Some Old Loves.Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them and pretty soon you have a dozen. - J.S. Wut if Br'er Rabbit Wur Uh...