Month: August 2019

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....

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...

I often marvel when I look around at my family—and realize that we all have unique DNA, completely different from each other. And yet, we are a family. There is no thicker blood than water here. Thick blood just means some bad blood pressure, and no one has time...

“Will you be his mother?” A picture of a black boy flashed into my mind. I remember the exact moment the question came to me. I’d been weeping in the shower again, surrounded by an old blue tub, wondering when God would open my womb again after a devastating...

You are seen. Noticed. Watched. What the eye captures, pulls your image in and translates that info into the mind and soul of the watcher. Sometimes, that one visual moment sears a permanent place into the memory, making you unforgettable. I never expected the life-altering possibility of such a...