A Call for Justice and Accountability: Reflections on Steele Creek Church of Charlotte
After a busy holiday season, I am finally able to process and articulate my profound disappointment regarding the direction of Steele Creek Church of Charlotte (SCCC)- a church I attended for over a decade. My reason for leaving back in 2018 was rooted in the church's persistent complacency toward racism, and its deceitful maintenance of white evangelical Christian values wrapped in ethnically diverse membership. Forgive and Forget In November of 2025, Steele Creek Church of
All Hail Whiteness
In the 1920 book, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil , W.E.B. DuBois uses a series of poems and essays to explore the historic rise of white supremacy, and the operation of democracy along race, class, and gender lines. The second essay of the book is titled Souls of White Folk, and it explores both the causes for, and the implications of whiteness being seen as superior throughout most of the world. Within the third paragraph, DuBois makes a powerful and revolutionary st
"Dying to be Competent"
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The Tarheel Manifesto
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AAAD Book Report on The Autobiography of Assata Shakur
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Onward Christian Soldiers
"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected...
"But what about Black on Black crime?"
This question is literally more aggravating to me than when my mom asks, "So if all your friends jump off a cliff, are you gonna jump...
America Is Making Us Mental
As most of you know, five (5) Dallas police officers lost their lives last Thursday night while serving to protect citizens during a...
Hey, Law Enforcement... wyd?
I want to start this off by saying that I am in no way, shape or form, anti-police or anti-law enforcement... but seriously, wyd? Today,...
