Voting for Our Future
Earlier this month the Supreme Court struck yet another blow to voting rights when it blocked an order that would have made it easier [...]
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A Glory Glory Hallelujah Time?!
Is our long-awaited real United States of America baby about to be born?! The one our slave ancestors, grandparents, parents and community co-parents died [...]
Read MoreThis Is a Time for Prayer and Action for All of Our Children
This is a time for prayer that our eyes, ears, and hearts may be opened for all of our children everywhere. ** A Plea [...]
Read MoreLet’s Set Our Children Free
Juneteenth marks the date in 1865 when many black slaves in Texas finally learned they were free from federal troops arriving in Galveston after [...]
Read More“We Struggle Together, We Thrive Together”
In the midst of this moment of national trauma I wanted to share a story of hope. When Jacquelyn Kendricks, program director at Roberts [...]
Read MoreHope Through the Suffering
“Another life taken. Another public lynching. Another news story. Another act of recorded Black death . . . [This death] is not an anomaly, [...]
Read MoreSharing Our Communal Grief and Never Losing Hope
Every day my very beautiful, brilliant, and much beloved mixed-race African friend, Maria Nhambu—who was placed in a Tanzanian orphanage in her first week [...]
Read MoreA Pandemic Prayer for Children and People Everywhere
OH I AM WHO I AM Hear the cries of all Your children young and old everywhere during this scary pandemic Who are threatened [...]
Read MoreSowing Seeds of Life and Hope
Parenting is a call and a blessing that can be a challenge under any circumstances. This has been a season like no other, but [...]
Read More“Is This Ever Going to End?”
Recently actor Will Smith conducted a video interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci, our nation’s leading expert on the White House Coronavirus Task Force and [...]
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