As a Black man, I have mixed feelings about using and hearing the “N” word. I understand why some of us use it—to reclaim power from a word that once carried deep harm when used by White people. In those moments in history, we had no power to fight back against it. My own experience with the word came in the 1970s, when I was in middle school. I rode an integrated school bus with classmates I interacted with daily without issues—until one incident changed everything. After a

In 1919, the United States experienced one of the most violent periods of racial conflict in its history, commonly known as the  Red Summer —sometimes referred to as the  “Summer of Blood”  due to the scale of killings and terror. Coined by civil rights leader James Weldon Johnson, the term describes a wave of racial violence that swept across  more than three dozen cities and rural communities following World War I. The violence occurred against the backdrop of  postwar econ

Maides Cemetery - Wilmington NC (The cemetery was never formally named in early records  and appears under several names on death certificates (including Maides  and Bradley ), a common situation for African American cemeteries of that period. We are living in a time when American history is increasingly contested, often in ways that overlook the fact that Black history is American history. The United States would not be what it is without African American contributions, yet

Once again, I had discussion with one of my White male friends and I always get a question about what roadblocks I have run into at his...

So I have avoided writing about this topic since it so infuriating. To help some White folks empathize, this is equivalent to the OJ...

For folks that are hung up on semantics, this is what "Black Lives Matter" is intended to express.

"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you." - Friedrich Neitzsche I had to step away from the blog for a bit due to...