Mulatto Moments in “Post Racial” America.
Talk about your mulatto moments! The Mixed Roots festival is a place you can do that and have people nod, laugh, and hug you in recognition. There may still be some furrowed brows, but it’s a safe house. Your friendly blogger is reading excerpts of his piece from “The Black Body” there. Sharing the mic [...]
The Black Body Anthology is coming out on the 1st! I’m one of 30 essayists included and it’s pretty great company! Check it out on Amazon or the Publisher’s website. But you can truly find it everywhere, I think. Also come to the reading on the 10th @ Skylight Books, if you can. All the [...]
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! Very exciting!
The beginning of this pet project, is to what I refer. After the 2004 Democratic Convention Speech, I was blown away thinking that this was the America I know. This brown guy with a white mother and black father, born in Honolulu talking about unity. That’s always been my trip, same birthplace, similar circumstances, (though [...]