First it was the constant phone buzzing and then the flurry of emails. Alert. Alert. Alert. I thought the late Sunday evening text messages were too numerous not to be true. However, I did not fully register the seriousness of it all. Shelter in Place. I fell asleep. In the…

I’ve always enjoyed traveling. Perhaps another immeasurable blessing from my mother who read vociferously, which seemingly naturally became one of my favorite lifelong pastimes. I love the mental escape to adventure, fantasy, and possibilities. As a child, Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels was one of my most memorable reads as he opened…

It only makes sense that a former basketball player living in Chapel Hill would have lots of thoughts on the 2023 NCAA DI March Madness tournament. Most sports fans turn their attention to the marquee event that draws debates, eyeballs, and money to 17–23-year-old athletes competing for the national title…

Elite Black athletes have set the standard in many American sports. One of the most decorated and vocal has been Deion “Prime Time” Sanders, former Florida State University (FSU) football player and the new head coach at the University of Colorado. The media and fan scrutiny around his resignation from…

Living in Chapel Hill is a blessing. Despite the stifling heat wave, seemingly tropical afternoon rain storms, and the rise in coronavirus and monkey pox cases, life is good in the southern part of heaven. Screeecch! Let’s be clear — reality bites. There are matters that have “stopped me in…

Buffalo. Another senseless loss of life at the hands of a hate-filled White boy. Another piercing reminder of how dangerous life can be for Black people living and working in the United States in 2022. I’d imagine most psychologists, if one cared to conduct the research, would agree that our…

For many Americans 2021 was either a blur or a bust. The challenging mix of blending a positive attitude with the realities of managing health and safety protocols, economic instability, inequality, grief from the loss of loved ones, and employment and housing conditions often fostered spirits of depression or disassociation…

I’ve been reading Oprah Winfrey’s signature commentary “What I Know For Sure” for years. I enjoy the Queen of Media’s take on matters that should make us pause and think. With that framework in mind, I thought it would be fun to draft my own list in gratitude of this…

It is not unanimous but certainly a consensus that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) student body and faculty fully support Nikole Hannah-Jones’ recent decision to reject the tenured faculty offer of the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism position at UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism…