Happy “New Normal” Thanksgiving!

Much gratitude to the Higher Power that most of the folks I know, among my family, friends, neighbors, and associates have survived this COVID19 pandemic, or plague, like some of us refer it as, with very few if any symptoms, especially if we have been making a strong effort to abide by the safety measures

FYI: My Favorite Social Justice Movies & Documentaries

Goal: To see one another as a dignified soul. Our duty should always be to identify injustices (do not simply watch them happen and do nothing!) and work to change them by helping to transform hearts through our words and actions, as well as try to change public policy in any way we can (influence

Where are we going from Here America with Race Relations?: We’re inching along!

The U.S.A. has never been a place to take change easily, even a slight change of the status quo. I am a 1950’s baby who experienced a lot of backlash under Jim Crow Laws in Louisiana until age 12, the turbulent 1960’s-70’s with peaceful (that turned violent with “law enforcement intervention”!) Civil Rights protests/demonstrations ,

Recent Police Brutality Protests: Deja Vu…

I couldn’t help but notice as I watched news reports about people all over the world, young and older, of all and any ethnicity, loudly and angrily protesting in the streets of various cities (Minneapolis, Washington D.C., New York City, San Francisco, London, Paris, Atlanta, etc.), after the insanely brutal behavior of Minneapolis police officers

Mystory: Part 4B

I regret having to take off and not complete my thoughts about Mystory: Part 4, so here it is MyStory: Part 4B: I strongly believe it is one thing to be apart of the Democratic Process and U.S. Constitution as a citizen, with an opinion regarding various issues (thank God for 1st Amendment Rights!) ,

MyStory: Part 4

I feel compelled today to write a bit about the global crisis looming over us: the COVID-19 or Coronavirus…I received an email this morning for a religious organization I am connected with back Eastern USA I am in disagreement with regarding how this pandemic started. The organization will remain nameless because they are having issues

MyStory Part 3: Education, Career (Part A)

I attended kindergarten through seventh grades in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at a segregated (for Blacks only, Whites had their own schools at that time in the 1950’s) elementary (Arlington Elementary, one of about three all Black elementary schools in Baton Rouge at that time) and junior high school (McKinley Junior High was in our attendance

MyStory Part 2

I remember just like it was yesterday: my little brother, Larry, (he was only two years younger than I, but I always considered him to be my little brother…I guess it’s because whenever he needed his bottle of milk fixed , I often insisted on doing it for him!) whose birth name was Joseph, and

MyStory: First Blog Entry

I am slowly getting the personal interviews underway, for the firsthand accounts of my first unofficial titled realistic nonfiction historical book : Surviving While Living Black. My intention is to interview and include narratives from seven (7) persons (hopefully both female and male)…seven narratives because being a good Christian Catholic I expound the Symbolic Numbers

Update on non-fiction book in progress

This COVID-19 crisis has created a New Normal for me and all of us, I’m sure, therefore I’ve had to get the discipline once again to Blog. Thanks be to God I’m back with it!! I’m trying to connect over the telephone with some elderly relatives and friends I intend to chronicle in this book