Living in a deeply deep red state is not easy.

“Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now is a form of racism. We are the only people...

“Until the killing of black men, black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother’s...

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti- intellectualism has been a constant...

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect. --W. E. B. DuBois There is a malignant cancer festering in this society; a...

“When you make men slaves you deprive them of half their virtue, you set them, in your own conduct, an example of fraud, rapine, and...

“… most white Americans have been taught to see themselves as individuals, not as members of a privileged group, so they are shaken and...

“Give advice, if people don’t listen let adversity teach them.” --Ethiopian proverb 45 is gone from the White House, but the same “good...

“Rain beats a leopard’s skin, but it does not wash out the spots.” --Ashanti proverb Independents. Democrats. Republicans. Republicrats....

If we are to become a psychologically, physically and spiritually whole people once again ... healing must take place.

"I do not know the power of my hand ..."

I am a soon to be 68 year old black man ... I have looked down the barrel of more than one Police white man's gun.

Colin Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem in silent, peaceful protest against police killing unarmed black men.

In a riveting speech to the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Fannie Lou Hamer, declared, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired."

America is, now, what it has always been: a nation that is desperately trapped in the consequences of its own lies, distortions, deceits....

The first Africans enslaved in America did not answer to, "Nigger."

In the face of the tragic mass shootings in California, Texas and Ohio, this nation, once again, is in shock.