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Fighting Against Bigotry Will Evolve Us Into Better Human Beings

“…if you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is that white people have a…

Jun 14, 2020

Fighting Against Bigotry Will Evolve Us Into Better Human Beings

Jun 14, 2020

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Day Five-Sixish of Quarantine.

I didn’t have a nervous breakdown like I thought I would on day one. But I have been hyper vigilant to checking my symptoms. I have a live…

Mar 20, 2020

Day Five-Sixish of Quarantine.

Mar 20, 2020

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Facing Death Should Make Us Face Life

With the blooming of a new year and new decade, I sat with grave news and had a sort of existential crisis. A friend from my college years…

Jan 4, 2020

Facing Death Should Make Us Face Life

Jan 4, 2020

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Esau’s Bowl of Stew.

Black men will sell out their people group and shit on everyone else because the prime model for that mode of survival and pseudo-success…

Jan 17, 2017

Esau’s Bowl of Stew.

Jan 17, 2017

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Dear White Parents — Your White Children Can Learn Hard Truths And Survive It.

Earlier this year, and over a year after I left my previous predominantly white and PCA church because I couldn’t handle the white silence…

Sep 22, 2016

Dear White Parents — Your White Children Can Learn Hard Truths And Survive It.

Sep 22, 2016

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New York, New York: My Abridged List of Facts on a Weekend’s Trip

all photos except from film Coming to America and Charlie Murphy are by Alexis Coleman

Sep 11, 2016

New York, New York: My Abridged List of Facts on a Weekend’s Trip

Sep 11, 2016

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eros is rarer than we know.

“Love isn’t something that we invented. It’s observable. Powerful. It has to mean something. Maybe it means something more, something we…

May 14, 2016

eros is rarer than we know.

May 14, 2016

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Be Better Men.

Dear men…

Feb 17, 2016

Feb 17, 2016

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stings and arrows

There’s a couple at my church that I find myself struggling to like.

Nov 3, 2015

stings and arrows

Nov 3, 2015

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We can’t win when we ain’t right within.

Where we are now, a year after Mike Brown’s death.

Oct 16, 2015

We can’t win when we ain’t right within.

Oct 16, 2015

alexis

alexis

| vocalist/musician | songwriter | sometime actress | sometime writer | late bloomer | tight hugger | activism + art | child of YHWH | linktr.ee/alexiscoleman

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