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Read MoreDaddy and me, Easter 1977.
Read MoreDoing an interview later on R. Kelly. In the meantime, here is a little something a wrote a few days ago…
Read MoreHurricane Michael is the latest natural disaster to hit Albany, GA.
Read MoreAnother piece on the McMath case. This time for The Hastings Center.
Read MoreAs annoyed as I am by the personal attacks on me after my recent article in The Conversation, it is strangely satisfying to watch people make my case for me.
Read MoreI’ve written again on Jahi McMath, the little girl who was declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy. This time for The Conversation.
Read MoreWhen I was younger I could imagine a unicorn more easily than I could imagine a black woman philosopher…
Read MoreI dream of the world where sexual pleasure is celebrated!
Read MoreI’m excited about my first piece in The Conversation.
Read MoreI was initially going to use this post to nerd out on Hobbes and Rousseau in an erudite discussion of race and the concept of representation in modern philosophy. I still kinda want to nerd out on Hobbes and Rousseau, but that’s a project for another day.
Read MoreI graduated 20 years ago…
Read MoreApparently, there’s a such thing as suspicious napping, and it warrants police intervention.
Read MoreR. Kelly was just like the grown men who hung around my high school.
Read MoreI generally avoid footage of black people being shot, strangled, or otherwise abused.
Read MorePrince will forever be linked in my mind with “begging season.” Also, there’s only water in that cup. I think. Actually, probably not. Honestly, I don’t remember. But it’s me! Before the start of what would turn out to be Prince’s final concert in DC.
Read MoreThinking philosophically about why I hate these gentrifying dogs...
Read MoreI was born and raised (or "reared" as my mother insists) in the location of an important civil rights struggle. Hearing the stories bored me to tears until I matured enough to appreciate the lessons I had been taught.
Read MoreSometimes I underestimate how important it is to have a community. My brothers from the Dirty South are here to remind me.
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