My Abortion Experience
20 years ago, after graduating from college, I chose to work as a "healthworker" at the Feminist Women's Health Center in Atlanta, GA. For the first month or so, we enjoyed a relatively quiet...
View ArticleTwo Little Girls
Spike Lee gave us a beautifully haunting documentary, "Four Little Girls" which chronicled the story of the 4 little girls who died in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham ( aka...
View ArticleJohn Lewis Was Right
Just a short diary for my peeps here at DKos. Came across this in my email. I wasn't going to look, but I had to. John Lewis spoke about this. Now, the "gentleman" in question didn't say that his...
View ArticleVote Hope
Did anyone else out there see the Tom Cruise movie, "Legend?" He was a young stud then, trying to save the princess and the last white unicorn from the evil Demon of Darkness (or some such epithet) who...
View ArticleWatching Daddy Cry
So. Much has happened, and is still happening in this great country of ours. Obama is in the White House (nearly). The Senate numbers are looking good. We are still grumbling and complaining about...
View Article"That Ni**er's Mama's Just Going to Keep Calling"
What my 20 year old BLACK goddaughter heard out of the police officer's mouth as he searched for HER. She had been threatened and had run into the woods for safety in the wilds of Springfield,...
View ArticleSinging With Daddy, Part 1
My Daddy is a singer. He's a cross between Ella Fitgerald and Joe Williams; that is to say that he scats mostly, much of what he's singing is unintelligible, but he can sure belt it out in the highs...
View ArticleLetter to My Senators
So it starts off with the DK form letter. I'm about to press send when all of a sudden my fingers and thumbs start going to town. The Senate should be working to pass real coronavirus relief -- not...
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