Open Letter to the Media, If/When I am Gunned Down by the Police or a Random White Person.
Dear Media, If you are receiving this letter, it is because I was gunned down or otherwise brutally killed by the hands of a police...
Writing helped me live
Writing literally gave me life and sanity through some of the most difficult times of my life. It was my sanctuary. Sometimes the writing...


A Systems Perspective to ‘My Brother’s Keeper’
Imagine if the Emancipation Proclamation read like this: “That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all black men held as slaves within...


Blogger’s Corner: Coming From Where I’m From– Gun Violence, Prison, Trauma… and Gentrification, Pt.
Ten months after my 10 years, two months and seven days in prison, I was hired part-time to do some noble works. I got a gig as a...


Blogger’s Corner: Coming From Where I’m From– Gun Violence, Prison, Trauma… and Gentrification, Pt.
When my parents would come visit me “up north, ” the directional colloquialism for spending time in the various slave-holding facilities...