PinnedMaureen WalkerDr. Claudine Gay, Ms. JaMaiya Miller, and the Plantation Ethos of the United StatesTwo Black Women Walk Through a Door10 min read·Jan 15, 2024----
PinnedMaureen WalkerAmerica, America, How Does Your Wisdom Grow?About 40 years ago, I had an intense conversation with a man whose name I don’t remember, so I will just call him Paul. Both of us were…7 min read·Sep 14, 2023----
Maureen WalkerNot All Vampires Live in Transylvania or Texas or . . .The last time I worried about vampires was when I was about eleven years old. Of all of the shape-shifting monsters, vampires were the…6 min read·Apr 1, 2024----
Maureen Walker“Biblelistically” Blessed: Liberating Christianity from White SupremacyOne of the many gifts I received from my mother is a healthy skepticism about religiosity. Although she was a deeply devout, churchgoing…8 min read·Jun 29, 2023----
Maureen WalkerMary, Full of Grace, with a Little Splash of VinegarThere were some Southern traditions that my mother seemed to delight in ignoring. One was wearing roses on Mother’s Day: red if your mother…8 min read·Jun 27, 2022----
Maureen WalkerHere in a MangerI know next to nothing about barnyards and stables. In fact, I just learned that a manger is a feeding trough for animals. Other barnyard…11 min read·Dec 21, 2021----
Maureen WalkerA “Karen” by Any Other Name . . .In gratitude and memoriam for Erica Garner, Heather Heyer, Fannie Lou Hamer, Coretta Scott King, Dorothy Parker, Ida B. Wells, and Ruth…20 min read·Oct 2, 2020----
Maureen WalkerWhose Story Is It?All this talk about history and statues reminded me of my third-grade lessons in Mrs. Bennett’s class. It was there that I learned to…12 min read·Aug 3, 2020----
Maureen Walker“Sir, Can We Talk About Your Knee on My Neck?”Try to imagine this scenario. You walk into your home and see that it has been plundered by burglars. You even know who the burglars are…15 min read·Jun 15, 2020----