Mulatto Moments in “Post Racial” America.
Two walls. Two acts of violence. I can’t remember what precipitated the violence, but I do remember that race mattered. I tore down the pinups of the J5 from my wall. Dad punched holes through the Angels.
Less than a year after the original moon walk, I saw the Jackson Five play a concert at the [...]
I offer you this in celebration of the Mixed Roots Festival and the Lovings of Loving v. Virginia, the case that forever abolished anti-miscegenation laws in the US in 1967.
It’s something I did in the mid-nineties. It’s kind of silly with it’s Rolling Stones references, but also a lot of fun.
Hope to see you tomorrow, [...]
I’ll have an essay in a new anthology to be released on October 1, called the Black Body. You can preorder it now on Amazon. I’m not yet famous enough to be listed among the contributors, but my essay will be right there in the first three along with Innaugual Poet, Elizabeth Alexander! [...]