Category: black family

  • We Will Rise . . . Like A Tomato Seed

    As I watch these tomatoes sprouting up from the ground, I hear Lupe’s song in the background. The one where he says, “Like a Phoenix, from its ashes, we will rise. . . .” Let me tell you the story of my tomatoes that rose from the ashes, and then I will tell you why,…

  • The Transference of Hatred

    An article regarding Black students taking a field trip to visit a Black rocket scientist is the impetus for this blog. And it wasn’t just the article that now has me grinning and tapping away. It was the comments that followed. Those comments set something in stone for me—a whole lot of Caucasoids are jealous…

  • Day One

    I used to think that everything I had become was a culmination of what I had been. I realize now that it’s more than that—much more. I am the seed of every ancestor that came before me. The seed of every ancestor whose egg and sperm once carried me in “to be” form. When I…