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How Black women’s reproduction became integral to white supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy—and remains key to their dismantling. Available, May 2021 The minute the page proofs landed in my email, I was stopped in my tracks. I turned off the radio, closed all the other windows I was working in, closed my office door, turned offContinue reading “The Black Reproductive Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood”

Tune in for interviews with Dr. Yusef Salaam (Exonerated Five) and author Ibi Zoboi, about their book, ‘Punching the Air’! Following that dynamic conversation, I facilitated a panel with National Book Award Finalists Pamela Sneed (Funeral Diva), Frank Wilderson (Afropessimism), and Adam Smyer (You Can Keep That To Yourself) on personal narrative as political struggle!Continue reading “ICYMI! Urban Agenda Media at the Twin Cities Book Festival 2020!”

This headline in the ‘Education Post’ grabbed me. What? To better education outcomes for Black students, schools need to change how they teach White students? I dig it! Please join me in this segment of ‘Urban Agenda’ with my guest, Nahliah Webber, the Executive Director of the Orleans Public Education Network, to critically examine andContinue reading ““If You Really Want to Make a Difference in Black Lives, Change How You Teach White Kids!””

“No persons of any race other than the Aryan race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant.” – Mapping Prejudice, A Racial Housing Covenant from Hennepin County, Minnesota. Join me in thisContinue reading “Mapping Prejudice”

Mr. George Floyd, Minneapolis, Minnesota May 26, 2020 George Floyd told them he couldn’t breathe, and for nine minutes, the Minneapolis police kept their literal knees on his neck. Even with knees on his neck, his life being stolen from him, he still chose respect, to use the word officer. I’m struck by this, stuckContinue reading ““I Can’t Breathe….Again””

“They (incarcerated people) are a dream constituency. You don’t have to build them any roads, or schools, or develop any new infrastructure to support them….and they can’t vote you out.” – Andrew Virgen, Director of Census Operations and Engagement, State of Minnesota Incarcerated people are counted in the facilities in which they are imprisoned, notContinue reading “From the 3/5 ‘Compromise’ to the 2020 Census: African Americans and the Myriad Realities of Being Counted”

A definition: Transracial or transcultural adoption means placing a child who is of one race or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another race or ethnic group. In the United States these terms usually refer to the placement of children of color or children from another country with Caucasian adoptive parents. https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/f_trans.pdf Another definition: TransracialContinue reading “More Than A Single Story: Transracial Adoptee Voices”