We are nearing the twilight of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the announcement of three different vaccines, the reality that our nightmarish existence in deference to our microscopic foe will soon be over sparks a ray of hope for people…

Something strange happened to me in the days following the video release of George Floyd’s murder. I was irate for two days and then… I felt nothing. There was no anger, no despair, and certainly no determination to make things better…

Fred Hampton is one of my heroes. The probable heir to the Black Panther Party Chairmanship, Hampton had organized a truce between all the gangs of Chicago at the peak of the Civil Rights movement. This enabled the Chicago Panthers to focus on core…

tl;dr I’m launching a fundraiser in unofficial support of GiveDirectly’s efforts for addressing the financial impact of COVID-19 in the United States. I currently have secured $30,000 in donation matching. The donation matchers and myself have agreed to match dollar for dollar all donations to GiveDirectly through the end of…

In the fifteen years I’ve been a Christian, I’ve spent at least ten of them struggling with my place in the church as a black man. In the decade of my racial awakening, I have struggled to believe that the black Christian has any share in the American church. The…

I’m blessed enough to have a job that allows me to work remotely. While I typically don’t use this much during the year, I do make use of the privilege during the holiday season in order to score some savings on travel. Of course, it presents for me the amazing…

Disruptive. No word quite fits my maiden year as a young adult in Boston as disruptive. Boston, a better-resourced metropolitan area than my beloved hometown of Detroit, has always been a place I look to in order to reformulate my vision. The technical, spiritual, and mental challenges I grappled with…

Author’s Note: This post is written from a Christian worldview and many of the perspectives and opinions shared will attempt to reflect that. Like the vast majority of church-going men (and probably women but I’m not privy to those conversations so I’m not going to assume), I struggle with…

I’ve grown a lot over the past three years (at least I hope so). I believe that this is largely a result of the presence God has had in my life. Whether I’m reading the Bible, praying, or listening to the…