Black Super

You know when your son’s favorite author writes two more books? Yeah. You buy ’em. The cherry-on-top factoid about this fabulous series is that the main character is a black super hero. You may have caught my enthusiastic blurb here a few years ago in a post titled “Launch”....
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Black Mystery

BAM. Here ya go. Black history, in black and white. She’s AMAZING. And frankly, she makes up for the largest portion of black history you will EVER hear about. In fact, pretty much no black history happened without her. Don’t you know who this is? You don’t? No way....
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Follow the Leader

He stood there, with hands folded behind his back, chin lifted high, looking directly at my daughter. Her two hands were full as she perused the iphone aisle. I caught his eye and made a beeline for her. I wrapped my arm around her shoulders. He continued to watch....
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Black Santa

I see you, old man. How your eyes twinkle and shimmer. I see how you wept and gave… He sat across from my husband’s desk, the old, black preacher. Being in non-profit work, visitors always mean that there’s good to be done. He’d visited for that purpose. And for...
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Launch

Hey Mamas. You want to buy this book for your kiddos: I’d been looking for such a book for a long time. Have you? Super heroes seem to be a dime a dozen. Black ones? Not so much. Like less than a hand count worth. A social media dude...
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Oh, Baby

I wasn’t sure I wanted to write this post. It meant looking back at my scars and digging deep into a painful time of my life when my cradle was empty and my expectations regularly dashed. It’s normal, they said, to miscarry. It happens. A stillbirth, a tragedy, a...
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Beyond the Chocolate

We’d been in the vast jungle known as Walmart. It’s crazy in there sometimes. I don’t need to tell you this, do I? You’ve already had a Walmart scene flash in your mind with a single word. I’d taken all three kids that day. That’s one preteen and two...
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Piece of Pepper

Do you already have black friends? Of course you do. You are so cool. I can’t imagine life without them. You might even be married to your best black friend (ya’ll so cute!) In our newlywed days, my husband and I lived in a mostly white area in Kentucky....
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Diversity Begins with Dolls

I’m telling you, put brown all over your house. Check your toy box. See what’s there. Does it feature all white children? Great! Nothing wrong with that. How about add some browns? Lots of them. Go crazy on Amazon Prime and buy a set of black doll house dolls...
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