"I am not “bipolar”; I have bipolar disorder – there’s a difference." I read an article about this recently, and it has taken me a few weeks to process it. But I want to share this journey during Mental Health Awareness Month. I have had bipolar disorder since I was a...
I could write an entire blog about the damage a teenage boy can do by forcing a girl to lose herself in his attentions, because right now, in this particular situation, my 18-year-old Little Sister is about to lose her chance at college… all because of a boy. She...
I live just south of Baltimore and the Francis Scott Key Bridge is only three exits away from me along the Baltimore I-695 Beltway. And yet, I almost never used it. My memory of going over the bridge is a special one. I had brought my 21-year-old niece up...
The stories of black women who have taken the national stage in politics are often told. Some people have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer, a proud sharecropper who dared to take on the Democratic Party in 1964 by attending the convention as an alternate delegate with the Freedom Democratic...
When I was a child, I read voraciously. I picked out the word “the” from my older sister’s picture books and was off and running by age 3. My mother fed my hunger for books with trips to the library and later, Scholastic Book subscriptions. The book The Snowy...
Okay, I cheated. I wanted to do a blog on black women’s health for Women’s History Month. Actually, what I wanted to do was go to a website chat board dominated by men and start a post about women’s health... for men. But I wanted to generate something that...
As part of Women’s History Month, I wanted to do a blog on five black millennial women who are living life differently in the 21st century. Millennials are the generation that transitioned into cellphones and social media. They can remember disposable cameras, and phones on the wall, listening to...
Back in 1989 when I first began teaching myself about black history, I read a book called Blacks in Science by Ivan Van Sertima. It had two sections. The first half was about examples of science and technology in Africa, and the second was about black technologists and their...
Well, the short answer of course is – thank the economy. The investments of multi-millionaires surged in the 2020’s, moving several people up in the food chart. Twelve of the black billionaires on the list are recent additions. But, it’s important not to diminish the work that they did...
I will never forget when I was in middle school and my social studies teacher was trying to do her part for Black History Month. She was telling us about Frederick Douglass, the great orator and abolitionist… who couldn’t read or write. My mother, bless her heart, had been...