If the year 2016 taught me anything, it is that our time has come. No amount of online petitions or Facebook posts will stand in for the work that needs to be done by all of us, everywhere. Right now we are in a fight for the heart of this country, and in 2017, I choose to believe that there are more of us on the side of peace and love than on the side of fear and hate.
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Democrats can’t just “Go High,” they have to Go Long …and take a note from the GOP playbook
Election 2016 has come and gone, and the Democrats were handed their most resounding defeat in almost a decade. There is a lot of hand ringing going on over what happened, how it happened, and why it happened, and the further into the elitist stratosphere the questioner, the more confused they seem to be. But … Continue reading Democrats can’t just “Go High,” they have to Go Long …and take a note from the GOP playbook
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Front and Center at the Academy Awards
Academy Awards will be handed out on Sunday, and while the show is expected to proceed mostly as usual, there will be a white cloud hanging overhead, as well as a few well-publicized absences. The Academy has acknowledged its need to diversify after a second year in a row of #OscarsSoWhite popularity on social media. … Continue reading Front and Center at the Academy Awards
American Storytime
Storytelling can be a driver of equality, but in this country there is a small, unrepresentative group telling only small pieces of a much larger American story.
Reparations or Inheritance?
If I am a descendant of a wealthy slave owner, shouldn't I have the same amount of wealth as my kin?
Real Food For Kids
Feed the kids real food.
Medicine for Some, Illegal for Most?
If marijuana interacts with the brain in such a way that it eases seizures, it is reasonable to expect serious research into whether it can positively effect the brain for non-life threatening, often debilitating, mental health issues.
False Detectives
My friend/ filmmaker Ashley Denise pulls off a feat of hilarity with "False Detectives." Challenge: can you spot me? Check out more of Ashley's work on Youtube at NuanseEntertainment.
Learning to Love Serena
She doesn’t seek confirmation of her beauty relative to her strength, she knows her beauty comes from her strength.