He Called Her: Saddle Tan Female
Lenore J. Domers Appleton, WI I read this “name” in a book entitled Colonel Carter’s Christmas, by F. Hopkinson Smith, published in 1903. It is...
Grace, pride, dignity, honour, love and light
Seydi, Detroit, MI. While growing up in Senegal some refer to me as dark as the buttocks of a cauldron, iIwas proud to be as...
Black, humbling existence to maintain dignity.
Tony Williams, Detroit, MI. Change in America is slow. I find it disheartening to witness the incarceration of African American men at this current level....
Colour, power, difference, struggle, dignity, aesthetics
G. Arunima New Dehli, India I am visiting from India, and for many of us the civil rights movement, and the debates and politics of...
Dignity and respect favor no color.
Constance R DeWitt, Submitted via Twitter: @crae100 #TheRaceCardProject
Emanicipation is still just a word
Winfrey Young, Atlanta, GA. Emancipation did not reinstate self-esteem, justice, dignity or reality. Freed slaves were not endowed with freedom to love or with pride...
Whiteness: shameful, boring. Black is beautiful
Sylvia Kronstadt Salt Lake City, UT For 60 years, I have wished I were black — or at least “colored.” This may seem outrageous to...
