Hope This Helps: Peace…

Hope This Helps: The chill hit me when I got off the plane. Not the cold temperature, but the general disregard I normally experience. Just a day ago, I basked in the sun of feeling valued at the America Healing Conference. My colleagues spoke in terms of...

Hope This Helps: Own you…

Hope This Helps: Last week as I checked out at the grocery store, an extremely nice employee commented on how “she wished her locs were round like mine.” Perplexed, I commented on how nice her hair was styled and then added, “We always want what we...

The Pilgrimage to Selma

It took about 14 hours from my door to parking my rental car to make it to Selma. And if you add the cancelled flights and pitiful tearful pleas at the DCA ticket counter, it drained me. So when I marched across the Edmund Pettus bridge, it felt like a hard fought...

March 7th, 2015 – #SelmaIsNow

One day when the glory comes, it will be ours. One day when the war is won, we will be sure. Glory. Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the Bloody Sunday March in Selma, Alabama.  Yet many Millennials would not know about this annual march celebration had it not been...