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Remember Why We’re Here: Renisha McBride
We were just here in September. We were here this past summer. We were here in some February not too long ago. We were here in 2010. We’ve been here so many times. We’re tired and sad and angry. The...
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Justice for Renisha McBride December 17
The message below is from the The Renisha McBride Committee of the Sankofa Graduate Association: Dear All: I hope you’re well on this snowy day. Again, thank you for attending and supporting the...
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On Surviving
A week ago today, I was in the hospital having surgery for thyroid cancer. It had taken a long time to get to this point where the anesthesiologist was suddenly saying, “So I’m going to put the oxygen...
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Here Comes the Sun
No power for eight days. Our house was 31 degrees inside. We bounced around–a couple of nights here and there, and then spent a few days near Lake Michigan where the frozen waves made it feel as if we...
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In the City by Joy Priest
Joy Priest, who wrote her powerful poem “No Country for Black Boys,” has a poem up on Toe Good Poetry. A must read and listen. Don’t miss it.
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Happy Birthday, Langston Hughes
When I was in high school, Langston Hughes was one of two Black poets my White English teacher glossed over (the other was Gwendolyn Brooks). “A Dream Deferred”? The message in the poem was obvious,...
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An Open Letter of Love to Black Students: #BlackLivesMatter
Black students and professors, Beaumont Tower, Michigan State University, December 6, 2014. photo by Darryl Quinton Evans We are Black professors. We are daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, cousins,...
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“Powering Our Future through Building on Our Past”
On Saturday, April 11, the Black Graduate Student Association held an awards ceremony I was unfortunately unable to attend. These are thoughts (with a few additions) I was having this past Tuesday,...
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To the Killers of Us
To the Killers of Us What did you do to us? Did you drink our skin, make tea from the powdered layers? Did you weave our coffins with hair from our own heads, was this you? And what of the whorls that...
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