Looking Back While Preparing for the Future Personally, 2013 was a really powerful year. In addition to welcoming our daughter into the world, our son started first grade and my family took some serious steps towards creating the reality that we want to have. Producing this website and publishing my first book, Afro State of Mind: Memories of a Nappy Headed Black Girl, … [Read more...]
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Everything is White … Unless You’re Told Otherwise
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“Santa just IS White. Santa is what he is, kids…Jesus was a White man too.” With these statement, Fox News anchor Megan Kelly kicked off a conversation that she was not prepared to manage. Kelly was responding to a Slate article written by Aisha Harris in which Harris argued that Santa should be depicted as a penguin. Harris’ argument was grounded in the fact that seeing the … [Read more...]