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A Call to Action (Written with Jamila Lyn)
Reading Jimmy Carter’s 2014 book A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power makes it clear that the least of what domestic violence is is a domestic issue. In fact what happens in our...
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Developing Grit in Our Students
I have been thinking more about what will help students succeed in education and life. I often get introspective around finals time when students come to me desperate for grades, or, rather, desperate...
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“While I Breathe, I Hope”
Dum Spiro Spero is the motto of South Carolina. It is something that I have thought about a lot growing up there. I thought about what breath and hope mean and how it is possible to stand an eternity...
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Thinking about Harriet Tubman and How Black People Have to Be Serious and...
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#BlackonCampus
Duke Take Over of the Administration Building 1967 I have been thinking a lot about revolution. I have been thinking about what it takes to truly change a people, a place, and a culture. More...
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“We’ll Understand It Better By and By”: Black People and Rituals of Mourning
I have been thinking and writing about grief in the African American Community this summer. Of course, over the past couple of months this grief is not only about the African American Community, but...
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Between Jordan Peele’s Get Out and the Extraordinary Life of Artist William...
Teaching our class on Gullah Geechee Culture for the second time at Morehouse College has me considering what ways that Gullah people see the world differently. The Gullah worldview is something that I...
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New Avenues of Research on the Gullah/ Geechee
It is wonderful to be working with the Adept Project. There are so many exciting avenues opening up in Gullah Geechee Research. Look forward to further featured work from the folks at Coastal Carolina...
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As much as the fictional Wakanda has been important in re-awakening many people’s connection to Africa in contemporary American culture, it is wonderful to think about how students are making this...
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The Legacy of Liberation
Click to view slideshow. It was my honor to go to Duke University this past February and participate in a commemoration of the take over of the Allen Building on February 13, 1969 by concerned black...
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