Alive & Awake

Today, on Juneteenth, I invite my White readers to listen to an interview with Aunt Harriet Smith, recorded in Hempstead, Texas in 1941....

This week, I’m asking my White readers to listen to author Kimberly Jones. Once again, I ask you to listen like you’re listening to...

Now, as always, it is critical that White people with platforms use them to amplify Black voices. My voice is not the voice that needs...

The needs are urgent. They already were. But between the pandemic, the abuses of capitalism, and daily warfare against us by our...

*Content note: I open with a metaphor of running a race and having the finish line altered midway, which may be triggering to some. To...

In pre-pandemic life, many of us would have loved a “stay-at-home” order. Mandated to cancel plans, quit the commute, wear sweatpants all...