I just want them to own the history
October 11, 2019[…] I was a minority at the school. I couldn’t help but notice when I was the only black person in almost all of my classes—including those with more than 100 students. I would say […]
[…] I was a minority at the school. I couldn’t help but notice when I was the only black person in almost all of my classes—including those with more than 100 students. I would say […]
[…] shoulders, flat across her chest—she looked like a little girl. She bent over the skin, pulling her black hair sideways out of her eyes. “A snake,” she said. She knelt on the floor with […]
[…] the language classes. We had a hotel room to ourselves, between two newlywed couples, one white, one black. Above us was the lounge. We could feel the drumbeats of In-na-god-da-da-vida and Fresh Garbage when […]
[…] cleavage. Her navy blue skirt is as skimpy as a cheerleader’s, but her bare legs, peppered with black nubs, are molded more for rugby than for pom-and-cheer. She withdraws a chair from our cozy […]
[…] wheeling gulls. Whereupon the scene shifted and Sister Dal lon was sitting in front of a large black desk on a hard, straightbacked— she twisted around to check, yep, Chippendale—chair. The female form was […]
[…] of encouragement), and following a few minor modifications, Talmage’s talk was printed in the November 1931 Deseret News, as well as in a separate church pamphlet at about the same time (the “pamphlet” was […]
[…] to create an “Alliance for Unity” that will bring LDS leaders together with leaders of the non-Mormon community will bear enough fruit to “to start healing the wounds of the state” remains to be […]
[…] steps out, wiping her hands on a white and green checkered apron. She catches one of her black pumps on the top porch step and nearly falls face first into the concrete path leading […]
[…] widespread “disobedience” among the faithful, vocal internal opposition, and severe controversies over the Catholic “responsibility” in spreading HIV by not permitting the use of condoms, even in the case of married HIV-discordant couples. Some […]
[…] Reconciliation: Reflections on the Fortieth Anniversary of the LDS Church’s Lifting the Priesthood and Temple Restrictions for Black Mormons of African Descent” (Dialogue 56, no. 2 , 55–83). Mine is a long and impassioned […]