My first book, I Won't Shut Up: Finding Your Voice When the World Tries to Silence You, tells the story of how I found my voice in a world that is cruel to Black women, especially loud Black women like me.
Category: Race
Pass the Mic: Ally’s Leave Loud Story Part 2
Ally shares the second part of her #LeaveLoud story.
Pass the Mic: Ally’s Leave Loud Story Part 1
Ally shares why she chose to stop worshipping in white churches after spending most of her adult life worshipping and serving in white Pentecostal and Charismatic churches.
The school-to-prison pipeline in the virtual classroom
Children should not have to navigate the same racism that they experience at schools in their own homes.
Dear Token
I’m concerned that you are playing a losing game in which you trade your dignity for a few crumbs of approval. The game dictates that you trade parts of yourself, your identity, and your culture for a set of fringe benefits. The problem is that these benefits (such as access to networks and opportunities) require you to continue to give these parts of yourself away until you are molded into the image of the Model Negro.
Black Lives Matter, but everything ain’t Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter organization is one of the scores of organizations that are invested in the liberation of Black people and the dismantling of systemic racism. There are also scores of grassroots organizations and groups that are acting under the presupposition that’s Black Lives Matter, but are themselves not aligned with the organization. There… Continue reading Black Lives Matter, but everything ain’t Black Lives Matter
Who asked for this? A White Christian Nationalist painting depicts Black ancestors praying for Trump
Jon McNaughton's painting "Legacy of Hope" is a literal illustration of what it means to take the Lord's name in vain.
Taking down the Emancipation Memorial: When whiteness tells our stories
In May of 2020, amidst national unrest sparked by the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and many others, symbols of the Confederacy have started to come down. The State of Mississippi voted to remove the confederate flag from its canton. A slave auction block was removed from the Historic Downtown of Fredericksburg,… Continue reading Taking down the Emancipation Memorial: When whiteness tells our stories
Racism = Prejudice + Power
Whiteness tries to equivocate about what racism is so that it can falsely equate prejudice with racism and thus ignore the compounding effects of the history and systems of race in this country. Racism is prejudice + power. Prejudice is wrong. It is hurtful. It harms people and relationships. Racism is insidious because it ties… Continue reading Racism = Prejudice + Power
No, Donald Trump isn’t under demonic attack; White Evangelicals are just racist as Hell
White Evangelicalism is in love with power and they imagine they are being persecuted when they perceive that they are losing that power.
The Armchair Commentary 