The blue wave that swept across America in the midterms took a little longer to reach Mississippi. Then came the call. The Associated Press projected that Scott Colom had won the U.S. Senate race, putting him on course to become Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction. Some are calling it the Blunami. Allow me a moment of Blississippi. And when I say Mississippi, I think of Freedom Summer. I think of Fannie Lou Hamer and the people who risked their jobs, t

We See You. Do You See Us? This past week, more than 27,000 African American women including professionals, entrepreneurs, graduate students, and undergraduate students gathered in Las Vegas as members Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, one of the nation’s oldest and largest Black women’s service organizations. United by an enduring commitment to service, they demonstrated what collective leadership looks like in action. The timing of this gathering is striking. At a

The Guardian 2025 A few blogs back “Creative Expression,” posted on August 9, 2025 I discussed the arts as a vital medium of creative expression and the essential role they play in a free society. In that post, I briefly mentioned the cancellation of Amy Sherald’s upcoming exhibit at the Smithsonian , with particular concern surrounding one image: a transgender reimagining of the Statue of Liberty . Reportedly, the concern was that the image “may provoke the President” (P

Google Images: Threads I haven’t posted in weeks—frankly, because I’m exhausted. Trump-tigue, I call it. Ironically, it hasn’t even been...