There’s something wildly beautiful about Botswana. I’m always an admirer of nature… things like sunsets, rainfalls, and night skies always manage to shut me up something proper. So trust me when I say, I was dead silent during The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.

Just a vent. Nothing new. This black girl did something a little different today-I began to listen to those who can’t hear.

Ever listen to a conversation between two people in a crowded place (say a bar or the Red Line) and notice one person responding in some crazy fashion to questions asked by another and wonder ‘why won’t the other [...]

What made the officer so determined to hassle these two? What type of arrogance and idiocy leads a man to believe that his ticket for a red light takes priority over a woman going to be with her mother before she dies?

…longing for when our communities no longer speak to the destructive bullshit but to the healing real.

A minor rant about where my affinity for police comes from, and why the murders of three police officers in Oakland - by one man - saddened me so much.