When I was 15 years old my family moved to a new town and I had to switch high schools. Prior to moving I attended Dunwoody High School, located in a suburb north of Atlanta. I went their on a program called Optional Transfer, formerly called M2M (or Minority to Majority). The program was designed to diversify schools in majority…
Today I found my old poetry book from middle school. I had forgotten what a voracious writer I once was. I write a lot still, but it's mostly e-mail, not poetry. I found that I had written in the notebook something I called "Poetic Words of Wisdom." Here's what 12-year-old me picked up: In life there are no problems, just…
I thought they were both interesting reads. I;m not saying that I agree with all of the opinions expressed in either. I have never read the book that the first post references, so I certainly can't say I agree or cosign. However, I enjoy a solid opinion piece. The first one is about Kanye West's changing attitude about racism and the…
"Rather than look frankly at who we are, where we’ve been, and use that to imagine a better future, we keep remodeling the past, as though it’s a beautiful but decrepit mansion we are desperate to inhabit. It’s time we get real about how the short sale of history is a bad deal, ruinous for the stability of future generations."…
So I went to see the movie 12 Years A Slave with my parents last night. As we are in the bicentennial of the Civil War era and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Is Beautiful Movements we have seen a lot of slave and black rights films, and we will likely continue to see…
I'm so over blog posts being treated as news and news being treated as blog posts. And news outlets have done this to themselves by not explaining their relevance to the public and not diversifying their newsrooms. In communities of color it's even worse because all we do is get our "news" from bloggers. Some Pakistani teenage girls got shot…