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Black Joy . . . and Let the Church Say Amen!
Weird things can happen when you’re just trying to walk into the post office. I was simply trying to mail a couple of packages when ...
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How Much Meanness Makes US Great?
I’m starting to think I might have the Crazy Miss Martha Syndrome. Miss Martha lived alone. She was the quiet, old (at least from my seven-year-old ...
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Who Gets Invited into the Nativity Story?
Some truths are larger than facts. Perhaps that is what draws me to the Nativity stories this time of year. Having grown up with my ...
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Sticks and Stones and Words as Weapons
Sticks and stones may break my bones But words will never hurt me. There’s power in little ditties such as these. They have such cultural ...
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Not All Vampires Live in Transylvania or Texas or . . .
The last time I worried about vampires was when I was about eleven years old. Of all of the shape-shifting monsters, vampires were the scariest ...
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Two Black Women Walk Through a Door
Two Black women walked through a door. If that sentence sounds like a setup, it is. But it’s not a setup for a joke, nor is ...
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America, America, How Does Your Wisdom Grow?
About 40 years ago, I had an intense conversation with a man whose name I don’t remember, so I will just call him Paul. Both ...
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“Biblelistically” Blessed: Liberating Christianity from White Supremacy
One of the many gifts I received from my mother is a healthy skepticism about religiosity. Although she was a deeply devout, churchgoing, Bible-loving, Sunday ...
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Still Playing in the Dark?
Nothing has as much durability as a racialized trope. Memories of 60’s television include racing downstairs with my cousins to see the “Negro” who had ...
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