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Legitimate Political Discourse: A Photo Essay

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Querida
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Piece 43: Sundown

Posted on June 15, 2021October 31, 2021 by Querida

I cannot articulate a specific moment when I first became aware of green books or sundown towns. Rather, for as long as I can remember, I’ve lived with the awareness that in our nation’s past, there were places and times of day when Black people were unwelcome.

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Piece 33: Expanding the Antebellum Narrative

Posted on January 30, 2021October 31, 2021 by Querida

Can you imagine the connection students might feel to history if it were intentionally made concrete and brought near to them rather than remaining an abstract, olden time amoeba?

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The Call is Coming From Inside Our House

Posted on January 10, 2021November 1, 2021 by Querida

We cannot hide behind the cross of Christ and the promise of future spiritual unity and reconciliation, declaring thereby that we have transcended all the troubles of the world because Jesus saves. Because the call is coming from inside the church house.

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Piece 25: 13th

Posted on November 26, 2020November 1, 2021 by Querida

This post is part of a year-long series. If my work is helpful for you, consider a contribution through Venmo to support this crucial work of unlearning racial bias. Two weeks ago, our country was taking baby steps in the direction of accepting Joe Biden as president-elect. Emotions and temperatures were flaring as caravans of…

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Piece 17: Between the World and Me

Posted on September 30, 2020November 1, 2021 by Querida

Is it possible to truly move forward in a positive direction as a country, if we haven’t collectively done the work of examining our past, warts and all?

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Piece 14: Where Does it Hurt?

Posted on September 3, 2020November 1, 2021 by Querida

Our babies, the babies they may have one day, and the babies of those babies – all deserve a future brighter than our present.

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City Council Special Session

Posted on August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 by Querida

When I came home from work today, I quickly prepared the remarks below to share at a special (virtual) meeting of the City Council this evening. I share my words here so that should I be quoted or referenced, the entirety of my message will be here, published on my own platform, in its entirety….

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Piece 10: 12 Years a Slave

Posted on August 4, 2020November 1, 2021 by Querida

To study these two stories and the popular response to both is, I believe, to see with fresh eyes the expectation of the dominant culture in America that it is always the expected position of black bodies to be submissive to their pain and struggles while observers who are not themselves on the margins with black Americans cry for a moment and then move on with their lives: never changing, never changed.

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Piece 5: Strange Fruit

Posted on June 30, 2020November 1, 2021 by Querida

This week is about strange fruit.

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