I received a free copy of Real American: A Memoir in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. Julie Lythcott-Haims takes you through her childhood, young adulthood and overall life experiences as she tries to identify and find where she fits into the race spectrum. As a product of a bi-racial marriage to an African American father and Caucasian British Mother … [Read more...]
RACE: Are We So Different? Award Winning Exhibition
RACE: Are We So Different? Award Winning Exhibition opened at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on April 22nd, 2017. It will be available until October 22, 2017. I had the opportunity to be a part of the UNC TV’s RACE Exhibit Black Issue Forum event on April 25th. We had 40 minutes to tour the featured exhibit and then we were led in a guided conversation where we … [Read more...]
I Can’t Stay Silent…
I recently shared a post about my seventeen year old son who was a victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, being detained for a crime he didn't commit and being with a group of friends who were all guilty of walking while black! If you missed that post, you can read Durham: Racial Profiling Much? #BlackLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter Below is a recollection of my … [Read more...]
Durham: Racial Profiling Much?!?!
Racial Profiling: The use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. You never want to get that phone call and it's one of your children, in this case my seventeen year old African American son telling me that he's been detained by the Durham police and that he did NOTHING wrong! It was Friday around 4:10 pm and my son had … [Read more...]