Category: CRY
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Maya Angelou Dies at 86. #RIPMayaAngelou
Good bye, Maya. Thank you for your wisdom, your grace, your words, and your love. Still I Rise You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you…
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I shook Soledad O’Brien’s hand yesterday and had no clue who she was. #embarrassed
Have you ever seen the Black in America series? Me too, I love it. Soledad O’Brian, a CNN news anchor, journalist, and host of Black in America, has been a positive and unyielding voice on race and culture in this country and I always enjoy watching her on CNN, which is why I’m upset with…
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For Trayvon;For us All. #millionhoodies #Vigils4Trayvon
This is my best friend Lovett. He is an educated, professional, creative black man who wears hoodies-even when it’s not raining. Lovett just had a baby boy; a beautiful brown skinned child who will one day be a teenager who wears hoodies. Wearing a hoodie shouldn’t make you a suspect. Being black shouldn’t make your life…
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The Great Alchies
This past weekend can be summed up in two words -Turkey and alcohol. It was a great weekend, but I came home, looked in the mirror at my dark circles and puffy eyelids and didn’t recognize myself. This month has been busier than most and my tendancy to reach for a glass of wine to…
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Domestic Violence Awareness Month: “I Will Survive.”Be witness. Honor survival
I was five years old when I watched my mother die at the hands of her boyfriend. Their fight started like all the other fights I’d witnessed. My mother stood with legs apart, her voice rising as she squared her shoulders and shook her fists, always the tough farm girl from Pennsylvania. Her boyfriend growled…
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Are you lost in translation, Dr. Laura?
I’m enraged. It could be that I am jet lagged in Hong Kong right now and it is 645 am…no, it’s because Dr. Laura Schlessinger bullied a black caller on her radio show; calling her hypersensitive, blaming black activists for making the nation “hypersensitive,” and using the N-word over, and over, and over, and over again. I had to…
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For Neda; Send Snooki
I watched “For Neda” today, which I knew was going to depress and anger me, I knew it, but I had to watch it. How couldn’t I have? I felt like I needed to give some homage to her story. It’s only been a year later. Of course the first thing you see is the…
Tamara Lynch 