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A Good Nose Bleed Could Change Your Life
I still remember the day that changed the rest of my days completely. Curled up on the floor in the bathroom of the church I attended, nose dripping with blood because I had cried so hard, I honestly...
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Victimhood: Are You a Card Carrying Member?
I recently wrote about the relationship between the oppressed and the perpetrators, sharing that those who have been oppressed have to be willing to surrender their notions of being a victim in order...
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On the Use of Guns: Who Are We Afraid Of
This week, a 46-year old man was arrested for shooting an eight -year old boy in the face in Dallas, Texas. The boy was playing outside his apartment complex when the older man opened fire on him for...
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Lessons I Learned about Being Black in 2013
In light of all of things that have been happening to black people in this country of late, I composed the following piece called ‘Don’t.’ These are just a few things that I am learning about what it...
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Fighting for a Place at the Playground: On Safety, Bullying and Everything in...
On Saturday, I experienced one of the most frightening things as a parent: the threat of my child being hurt by someone else. I took my three year old daughter and ten month old son to the park....
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The Importance of Worship in Times of Despair
This last year has left me weary. The constant news of violence against my people has been both overwhelming and discouraging, the latter because I honestly don’t know when relief will come. Our nation...
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Is This Who We’ve Become?
Last week, I received a call that no parent ever wants to receive – that there was a potential threat at my child’s school. After the police received information that there was a suspicious person...
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Feelings
Sadness. Everywhere I go, freedom escapes me. And that hurts, like a thousand paper cuts on the knuckles of the thumb. When will the pain end? When will enough be enough? Link to image >Filed under:...
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Dirt
Dirt. Ending up in places you don’t belong. Whoever thought you could be the source of so much unhappiness? What did I ever do to you? Have you come to disturb my peace? Have you come to unearth its...
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Breathe
I can’t breathe. Your unrealistic expectations are suffocating me. But you can’t hear my cries for help, Over the noise of your ego. Maybe my existence clashes with your own. But I don’t need to die,...
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White
They told me I was white Because I did not speak like the other black girls So I stopped talking And learned to write instead. I hid behind the written word So that no one would ever call me that...
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Lament Song
I woke up Wednesday morning feeling lost and confused, remorseful over the events of the night before. So much shame and a deep feeling of wantonness filled my chest, comprising the air circulating in...
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