An Account of Donald Trump’s Coronavirus High-Speed Chase For over a month, I’ve felt like someone handcuffed in the back seat of a police cruiser careening through the streets—with a toddler behind the wheel. Powerless to do little more than yell, scream, occasionally throw myself against the car window, and remind myself to breathe, I’ve […]

A GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER’S MUSINGS When genetic technology tells you you’re not who you’ve always been told you are, somebody’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.   No, my daddy is my father and my mama is my mother. Like most genealogical quandaries, mine goes much deeper than that. It, like many African-American familial stories, is haunted by

How I Discovered, “Discovered,” and “Was Discovered” by Toni Morrison INSPIRATION:  the gift of breathing in that which sustains. That is what Toni Morrison has been for me since 1978. Apart from my mother and grandmothers, Toni Morrison stands as the woman who shaped my life in the profoundest of ways.   Her words first gave me air in