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Negritude and Other Indomitable Qualities
What does it mean to be black? If you ask the right person, the same thing it means simply to be.
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Negritude and Other Indomitable Qualities
Negritude and Other Indomitable Qualities
A Hero’s Journey.
Jordyn “Big Bear” Jones
Jul 27, 2020
Once More, With Feeling!
Once More, With Feeling!
Cogito, Ergo Sum.
Jordyn “Big Bear” Jones
Nov 7, 2023
The Scholar and The Intellectual
The Scholar and The Intellectual
Only rarely is dividing the world into binaries not a daft pursuit. How many times do the great black and whites of the world turn to gray…
Jordyn “Big Bear” Jones
Aug 8, 2020
The Ballad of a Blackfish
The Ballad of a Blackfish
I wonder, I really do, about why black bodies are of such concerns to white folks. The lust they attach to them or the thirst to reside…
Jordyn “Big Bear” Jones
Jul 26, 2020
Mind Over Matter: Why Hating People is Still Cool (and Other White Bulls**t)
Mind Over Matter: Why Hating People is Still Cool (and Other White Bulls**t)
The Gambit
Jordyn “Big Bear” Jones
Jul 22, 2020
Black Thought: How I Became Me (Abridged)
Black Thought: How I Became Me (Abridged)
Black. Is it to you a color? Or perhaps its a culture? Maybe a hope? A movement? A people? Maybe for some of you that word all but takes…
Jordyn “Big Bear” Jones
Jul 20, 2020
The Torch and The Cross
The Torch and The Cross
What voices do you hear in the wind? What sense can you make of the rhythm of drums?
Jordyn “Big Bear” Jones
Jun 27, 2020
Αγάπη — Σε Μαύρο (Love — In Black)
Αγάπη — Σε Μαύρο (Love — In Black)
I don’t purport to know what love is. Not entirely at least. I mean how could I? I have yet to look at the face of a child and find myself…
Jordyn “Big Bear” Jones
Jun 25, 2020
The Oppressor’s Copout: The Problem of Pervasive Ignorance
The Oppressor’s Copout: The Problem of Pervasive Ignorance
In my experience, the scariest words to white Americans are, indubitably, why and because. In the wake of both nationwide disease and…
Jordyn “Big Bear” Jones
Jun 15, 2020
The White Jesus Problem… and Why God is Probably Black
The White Jesus Problem… and Why God is Probably Black
Before I begin, let me first address something: by my own admission, the two points to be discussed in my title are theologically moot…
Jordyn “Big Bear” Jones
Jun 8, 2020
Pedagogy of Me, Myself, and I (In Concert)
Pedagogy of Me, Myself, and I (In Concert)
Honestly, first and foremost, I have to say how refreshing it was to listen to a group of teachers speak so passionately about educating…
Jordyn “Big Bear” Jones
Jun 2, 2020
Pedagogy of “Black Dignity”
Pedagogy of “Black Dignity”
Albeit at times a little protracted for my taste, Freire’s Pedagogy of The Oppressed may be one of my favorite reads in a while. As I…
Jordyn “Big Bear” Jones
May 26, 2020
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