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  • Black History Month Day 2: The Lie of “A Few Bad People”

    Hello readers! Some truths take a long time to land, not because they are complicated, but because they are inconvenient. Black History Month invites us to sit with those truths without rushing to soften…

  • Black History Month – Day 1 Black History Is Not a Feel-Good Story

    Black History Fact:In 1619, enslaved Africans were brought to what would become the United States—before the country existed, before democracy, before the Constitution. Black history does not enter America as a footnote. It enters at…

  • The Shutdown Stripped the Emperor Naked

    Well, folks — if you were still squinting to see whether the GOP had any shred of empathy left for ordinary Americans, the shutdown just switched the lights on and handed you binoculars. What…

  • They’re going to need more than name calling and lies!

    We are witnessing a full-throttle campaign of delegitimization being waged against anyone who dares to resist the presidency of Donald Trump and the Republicans backing him. Make no mistake: this is not about a…

  • 🎶 Beyoncé Meets Beethoven: A Night of Pure Joy

    Last night, I had the absolute pleasure of taking my Beyoncé-superfan granddaughter to the symphony at the Hilbert Circle Theatre. And let me tell you — when you combine Queen Bey’s fire with Beethoven’s…

  • WHY WE MUST NOT BE SILENCED

    A friend of mine recently wrote a post that struck a nerve. She argued that sharing politically charged sound bites, shorts, and reels only creates division, misunderstanding, and hatred. In her view, people who…

  • ✉️ The Abortion Conversion: How Religious Conservatives Found Their Cause in the 1970s

    If you listen to the rhetoric today, you’d think evangelicals have always cared about abortion. It’s portrayed as a timeless, unshakable, straight-from-the-Bible stance—as obvious as “thou shalt not kill” or “thou shalt not vote…

  • Democrats Finally Found the Message—and Republicans Hate It

    For years I’ve sat here grinding my teeth, watching Democrats walk into the political boxing ring armed with a stack of policy papers while Republicans waltzed in with a bullhorn, a catchy slogan, and…

  • Good day, America—though “good” might be a stretch.

    Tuesday, we witnessed the Republican Party’s idea of leadership: a bloated orange carnival barker and his second-string frat boy lapdog trying to tell the U.S. military what their jobs are. Imagine a pair of…