An Open Letter To Portland & The World from ‘The Black Portlanders’

Why Can’t My White Husband Use His Own Hair Products?

… a perfectly reasonable question from a frustrated woman of color

I’m black, and my husband is white.

Black Sheep

The experience of racial otherness

Humanity’s Longest Civil War

Team Light Skin, Team Dark Skin: why we all lose

Alien from Negro Space

Small Town Celebrity in a Tiny Costa Rica Town

At the tender age of 22, I was no stranger to the feeling of being in the minority. I grew up in the US after all and was a scholarship recipient to an elite Baltimore high school where…

 Family History in the Cloud

African Ancestored Genealogy on the Internet

On camouflage and other ways to hide in plain sight

Notes on passing in Poland

Looking through old unfinished drafts of my writings, I ran across a note I wrote on 30 December 2012, almost one month after I was the indirect victim of a violent hate…

His Eyes Were Watching God

Grandfather Jack Hancock & the Great Hurricane of 1928

Upstairs I’m reading Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’, a novel and the downstairs book is ‘Black Cloud, The Great Hurricane of 1928' by Elliot…

Maintaining Relevance with Ethnic Diversity in the Workplace

The Impact of Communication Through…