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Tuesday in Mooseville – Speaking His Truth: William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934) 12/10/19
He was privileged as one of the “Talented Tenth,” but a true ally to poor African-Americans. He was a newspaper editor and a Black Radical who alienated the full-range of the political spectrum, from Woodrow […]
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Tuesday in Mooseville – Curiosity Piqued. Mississippi. 1890s. The Nadir. 9/10/19
On September 5th, Janesaunt posted at The Orange about Jennifer Riley Collins, who is running for AG for Mississippi (this is the diary) and the intentional structural difficulties faced by African-American candidates in MS. In […]
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Tuesday in Mooseville – Cheat, Fake, Fool, and Lie 8/20/19
I wasn’t paying much attention to Twitter this past weekend, so I am grateful that Sis Dee’s Sunday post (1619. The 400th anniversary of the real founding of America.) brought the 1619 Project to my […]
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Tuesday in Mooseville – The Six-Week Filibuster 6/18/19
On December 20, 2018, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018 passed the Senate by unanimous consent. After 200 attempts since 1882, this was the first federal anti-lynching legislation to pass in the […]
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Tuesday in Mooseville – Why White Folk Understanding the Racist Mammy Archetype Matters 5/14/19
Over the weekend, a Bill Maher-initiated hashtag on Twitter caught fire amongst too many on the Left. It was a play on a racist slur used by 45* against Sen. Warren, and far too many […]
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Tuesday in Mooseville – Remembering One Year On (James Cone) 4/23/19
On April 28, 2018, James Hal Cone, considered a father of black liberation theology, died at the age of 79. I never knew Dr. Cone, but I spent most of my adult years knowing of […]
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VNV Tuesday – Speaking His Truth: James Baldwin 1/16/18
In a moment of semi-panic because I had no clue what I was going to write, I turned on the television in the hopes distraction would mitigate the writing block and lead to clear thinking. […]
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VNV Tuesday: “What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have.” 1/9/18
I didn’t watch the Golden Globes on Sunday, but I have watched Oprah’s speech. For me, the line that resonated the most is the sentence used as the title of this post: “What I know […]
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VNV Tuesday: When We Center Whiteness, We Lose 1/2/18
The title of this post was not inspired by electoral politics directly; it was inspired by the passing of Mrs. Recy Taylor last week. As I read her story in a series of tweets by […]