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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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Mary, Full of Grace, with a Little Splash of Vinegar
There were some Southern traditions that my mother seemed to delight in ignoring. One was wearing roses on Mother’s Day: red if your mother was ...
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Here in a Manger
I know next to nothing about barnyards and stables. In fact, I just learned that a manger is a feeding trough for animals. Other barnyard ...
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This is US
By Way of Prologue Anyone wanting an easy listening overview of a city’s attractions knows exactly what to do: climb aboard a climate-controlled tour ...
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A “Karen” by Any Other Name . . .
In gratitude and memoriam for Erica Garner, Heather Heyer, Fannie Lou Hamer, Coretta Scott King, Dorothy Parker, Ida B. Wells, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...
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