Do Old Wounds Ever Heal?
When do the memories of children torn from mothers’ breasts, fathers’ protection, a community’s legacy stop haunting us? When does healing begin?
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Remember When You Couldn’t Call Someone a Racist? I Do!
In fact, getting caught saying the wrong thing to the wrong person, or in the wrong place at the wrong time, could make for consequences that could be life threatening.
When You Walk into that Valley
Those of us who live in this Land of Inequality, this desert, know there are no black-and-white answers. There is just a long, hard, emotionally exhausting journey of self-evaluation, critical thinking, and cultural study.
How Much Discrimination Is Acceptable?
The answer should be none, but it’s not. The question is when do we draw the line and say no more.
In This Era of Racial Strife, What Gives Me Hope and Despair?
William Spivey answers audience members’ questions from Medium Day.
There Is But One Fight
If the disease “is greed and the struggle for power,” then it is greed and the struggle for power anywhere that we must fight.
An American Town Has Not Held an Election in Sixty Years
In Newbern, Alabama, voter suppression has a particularly egregious manifestation.
America Is Drunk on Racism
Too many Americans are convinced that the only way to experience the high of national pride is to disregard all the evidence of racial inequity.
With Racism, Absolution Is Not the Solution
Some of us are trying to share the reality, ramifications, and human costs of racism. And others aren't looking to problem solve. They’re looking to be set free of any responsibility for the problem.
Visiting the Free State of George Floyd
In the Free State of George Floyd, the freedom mentioned is more aspirational than real. Black people—and Minnesotans—are no better off than before.
White Supremacy Always Deals from the Bottom of the Deck
When Black folks say “No” to back door substitutes, double-dealings, and anything less than parity, we are saying, “This is not equality; it is unacceptable, and nothing less will do.”
The Southern Baptists: Justifying Unchristian Values
The Southern Baptists recently made news by kicking out congregations with female pastors, including the California megachurch Saddleback Church and Fern Creek Baptist of Louisville, Kentucky.