Fierce Love
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Clutch Pearls or Rise Up? (opens the original)
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Two things can be true at the same time. These are distressing, hot mess times, AND there are signs of hope. People are rising up.Some of the hot mess: Nolan Wells did not drown. BUT Mississippi is trying to cover it up. No criminal charges.Seven men r-ped a woman for seven hours at Cornel University. Two got expelled. The rest? Writing essays as punishment. No criminal charges. Though the ICC has charged Be Be with war crimes, because of his genocidal horrors in Gaza, he was able to speak at th
What is love? Baby don’t hurt me... (opens the original)
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Here is what I’m not trying to do. (opens the original)
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I’m reading two books right now: Jesmyn Ward’s stunning Let Us Descend and Robert P. Jone’s Backslide. Her’s is poetic, powerful, lyrical, and precise prose that takes us into a world of enslaved women-a mother and daughter-separated by cruelty and greed. His is a searing, precise, compelling indictment of what white supremacist ideologies and theologies have done to our nation and what needs to happen to redeem us.I do race work, y’all, and these books are the kind that teach, stretch and inspi
My 9/11 Prayer (opens the original)
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I was living in DC on 9/11/2001. Middle Church in NYC was open to folks fleeing southern Manhattan. In fact many of our members joined the church in the wake of the tragedy. Our members Joey Morelli, Lisa Fenger, and Gloria Moy were first responders. May God bless you! Our member Kerri Kelly lost her step-father that day, a fireman who went in to save lives and ultimately lost his own. My prayers are for Kerri and his family, too.Balbir Singh Sodhi was murdered on September 15 in a hate crime. H
We gotta do what we gotta do (opens the original)
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Today, I watched 70some children sing, chant, and move for freedom and justice. It was the last day of the Middle Church/Freedom Rising Summer Camp, and parents, guardians and caregivers got to witness a little taste of what happened this week. It was amazing, and tears came to my eyes. The room looked like the United Nations; the children were all shades, from deep brown to the lightest beige. They came from many religions and ethnicities. They were shy and bold, tall and short, joyful and nerv
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