Because we live in a large metropolitan city and don’t rely on individualized transportation, we are in contact with people living without a home on a routine basis.* There are many different reasons for the continual rise in homelessness in…
Last week at a meeting of the NYC organizing committee for the @poorpeoplescampaign (see my post with baby Skyler & Dr. Baber a few weeks ago for more on this movement) we sat around the table thinking about how we…
Justice starts in the bedroom. Dr. Katie Cannon, known for her expertise in womanist & black ethics (and for being @nickcannon – of the @mariahcarey Nick Cannon’s aunt) said this during a discourse in graduate school to my young 23-year-old…
This is one of my favorite pieces of art in the East Village. Today it feels empty. hard. wrong. unfair. to look at such a happy picture swimming in peace while innocent Syrians are struggling for their lives. It is…
A dear friend contacted me recently (when I say dear I mean she is the reason I know my now husband & we endured grad school together) with a reflection on taking her children to a demonstration in South Carolina…
I did a demonstration once in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. I blindfolded myself and sat out a sign saying “I’m Muslim, not a terrorist. Do you trust me? I trust you. Hug me.” This little girl, only up to my waist,…
The funny thing about my book tour, Cleo Wade began on Friday night in Brooklyn, is that it isn’t about her book (Heart Talk) at all.bRather, Cleo (poet, artist, storyteller), brings people to talk with her who inspired her (and…
This article originally appeared on Refinery 29 on March 23rd, 2018. I was what one might describe an activist before having children, but since I’ve become a mother my dedication to activism has skyrocketed. I routinely bring my three young…
A year before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights. When we see that…
