It’s the last week of 2016. The first thing that came up as I wrote this? Good riddance. It was a rough year in ways I don’t need to reiterate

Two words I am sick of hearing in this post-election reality of what else can we talk about? news coverage: “fake news.” Never mind how helpful it might have been

Embed from Getty Images When times get rough, and they are most certainly rough post 2016 election,  I turn to music. There has always been a transcendent quality to Whitney

After the strobe light anxiety-triggering-mind-numbing results of the election, I remembered an episode of “Preachers of Detroit,” a reality show about ministers and their families that aired on Oxygen in

Have you ever heard this expression expressed by someone to explain why they don’t go to church? Religion is for people afraid of going to hell… Spirituality is for those

Today is my mother’s birthday. She died when I was in high school. When I do the math on how long it’s been since I’ve be in her physical presence,

Before any discussion of race can occur, we must first ask whether or not the places we choose to worship affirm our humanity. Theology must speak the language of the

Welp, looks like between my last post and this one, TeacherBae has been reprimanded. Once again, a Black woman faces penalty for having curves. It saddens me to report that

“You’re too big for that.” This is the subtle shaming background music with lyrics for big black girls everywhere. And that word ‘big’ is loaded all by itself: big as

In case you have been under a rock for the past month, you have heard about the controversy over Colin Kaepernick’s decision to take a knee during the singing of