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Continue reading →: Another Episode in the Life of a Black Female UnicornIf I was a white woman, I think I would be considered quite normal. Maybe even boring? But because I’m a black woman, I’m abnormal. Or should I say, special. We’ll go with that. It sounds nicer. Maybe you know what I mean. If you’re a black woman who’s reasonably…
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Continue reading →: Friends Are the Family We Make for OurselvesYou guys may not know this, but I’m writing a book. I’ve written quite a few of them – romance novels that I sell in the Amazon Kindle store under a pen name – but this is my very first book under my name. It’s kind of a big deal…
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Continue reading →: Even Smart Black People Make Mistakes About RaceMy mother said something last Sunday that I can’t stop thinking about. She said, ‘if I had it all to do over again, I wouldn’t have raised you in an all-white environment. It wasn’t good for you.’ Then she shared a few stories from my early childhood, mostly school tales…
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Continue reading →: Facebook Is Being Irresponsible with Its Stance on Political AdvertisingI usually shy away from blogging about politics – it’s too inflammatory, even for me LOL – but hear me out here because I’m not advocating for Democrat or Republican. Nor am I pushing for a particular candidate in the upcoming presidential election. My gripe this fine Friday is with…
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Continue reading →: Former President Obama Makes a Great Point About Being “Woke”So, earlier this week former President Obama called out cancel culture and so-called woke young people at his Obama Foundation summit in Chicago. I didn’t watch the entire hour-long speech, but I believe he was speaking particularly of the culture on college campuses. I see a ton of different applications for his…
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Continue reading →: Should MLB Cancel Robert Drake?Is racism like, a low key sickness of the mind? Or, if not racism – since I can’t make a strong case for that given my limited scientific knowledge – then bias or insensitivity, are they potential symptoms of a deeper mental condition? I ask because I just don’t understand…
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Continue reading →: Alma Har’el’s ‘Free the Work’ Makes It Easy to Find Diverse Talent in the Entertainment IndustrySo, filmmaker Alma Har’el has created a new tool to promote diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry. Free the Work is a searchable database for women and minority creatives, or what she calls “a sexy version of Spotify meets IMDb.” I like it for two reasons. One, it puts the onus…
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Continue reading →: My Solo Adventure in Seoul, South Korea: Tea, Temples, and Being OtherSo, I didn’t blog last week. The world ended. I’m kidding. It didn’t. I was in Seoul, South Korea on a long overdue, hard won, extremely different vacation, and I legit needed time to process. It was a trip. I walked around a 1,200 year-old Buddhist temple, sipped tea at…
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Continue reading →: Once a Racist, Always a Racist?With all this talk of whistleblowing and impeachment flowing around, I suppose it was only fitting that a story about questionable journalism ethics and poor social media skills caught my eye. CNN ran a piece today about Aaron Calvin, a Des Moines Register reporter who lost his job after writing a…
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