Run With Ahmaud

I woke up this morning with so many feelings and I needed somewhere to put them. Last night I saw that Ahmaud Arbery's killers, Gregory and Travis McMichael had been arrested. How sad that that it took 74 days. How sad that it had to be sensationalized. Ahmaud Arbery's Killing and all of the events …

Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia

Photo by MilikKashad Thanks to the Executive Director of the Museum, I now know what it feels like to be Beyoncé. The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia is honestly one of the most well put together, technologically advanced museums that I've been to. It was simply beautiful. Upon entering the museum you …

(The Panther Series) The Black Panthers Speak – Edited By Philip S. Foner

"We owe it to our ancestors to fight for the impossible" Excerpt p. 167 “Breakfast for Children pulls people out of the system and organized them into an alternative. Black children who go to school hungry each morning have been organized into poverty, and the Panther program liberated them, frees them from that aspect of …

(The Panther Series) To Die For the People – Huey P. Newton

"This will lead us into the era where the withering away of the state will occur and men will extend their hand in friendship throughout the world."

Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

“Enslaved people were many things at once, and they were many things at different moments and in various places."

WGN America’s Underground, Binge-worthy and Still Needed

Before you say it, Yes!, I know Underground has been cancelled for two years now BUT in my defense I didn't have this blog two years ago. More importantly, this show was fire and the need for it in it's absence has not subsided. So yeah I'm two years late to the "Fight to Get …

12 Years a Slave

Excerpt p. 11 "Their young voices were music in our ears." "Their presence was my delight; and I clasped them to my bosom with as warm and tender love..." - Soloman Northup on the subject of his children. Included to emphasize the pain he must have felt when he was kidnapped and forcibly separated from …

Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Educational and Memorial Center

Transparency 2019: In keeping with my theme of transparency for the year, I'd like to admit that I struggled to write this blog. I struggled because of how much I love Malcolm and how much I could say about him. I struggled because this is the first time I've had to make a negative critique …

(Film Series) Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé

WELCOME to Beyoncé Homecoming! Where she has served you HBCU (Historically Black College and University) and showband REALNESS!!!!! Yep! So here's... IV Ways Beyoncé's Homecoming SNATCHED me bald: Get it? IV? Real Quick S/O to Brittany A., still saved in my phone as BrittMyBFITB.com, Thanks for requesting this blog, it was so much fun to …

Harvey B. Gantt – Charlotte, NC

Welcome to my home town, my old stomping grounds, the city that raised me! Charlotte aka CharLit, home of the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture. Before we dive into the center's exhibits I wanted to share some facts about the center. "The Gantt Center is located in the heart of …