Our VoiceThe Blog
Way Out of No Way
We have been forced, due to a lack of progress and an overall apathy, to become the freedom fighters of our own lives.
To Be Young, Gifted, & Black: A Letter to a Young Black Leader — Part 2
In our story, the black story, we have the best of us and we have the worst of us.
To Be Young, Gifted, & Black: A Letter to a Young Black Leader — Part 1
We are viewed as problems to be solved rather than people to be admired.
On Portraits, Blackness, and Art
Being black in America shares the same pulse as being an artist. It is a discovery of what it is to be human.
In the Middle: A View of African and Caribbean American Life
Caribbeans and African Americans believe lies about each other and if there is no one in your life to challenge those lies, you will accept them as fact.
Black Motherhood in the Age of Trump
I wonder if the car seats in the back of my minivan will be enough to keep me from becoming Sandra Bland.
Dignity in Community
There is a need for platforms to be constructed so that past, present, and future marginalized voices can be elevated. We choose by God’s grace to assert ourselves in the affirmative.
The NMAAHC and the Risk of Rightly Remembering the Past
Nothing demolishes the idea of American exceptionalism more thoroughly than an honest account of how people of color have been treated in this country.