Therapist, columnist, social policy researcher | @hgse @penngse alum | @psychtoday @insidehighered @edu_post & more |
Joined July 2016
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1976 #BlackStudies syllabus from a class my mother took as a pre-med student at City College, CUNY. Nice to see her notes. She passed away last year.
Happy to know she read. #EricWilliams Capitalism and Slavery 🇹🇹 #Maroon societies.
The Caribbean and Brazil in conversation.
“Are you done dragging us yet…or?”
Full episode about 15 Signs Your Church Functions Like A Cult—my @PsychToday piece—on The Faith Community Virtual's YouTube.
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I’m completing a free African American history Yale course in my free time, if anyone cares. Here’s the link! oyc.yale.edu/african-america…
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One of my most successful summer book events happened at @kindred_stories in Houston. So grateful!
They’re carrying my recent novel Love is a Contact Sport (Black, queer, second chance, college reunion romance) and there may be signed copies in stock!
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I think Jonathan Lyndon Chase and Devan Shimoyama (both Philly based 😮💨) are the black queer artist doing the most interesting thinking around the homoerotics of black masculinity and the contra-cardinal or cross-east regional (i.e., northern *and* southern) shape it takes.
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Emma Mae [a.k.a. Black Sister's Revenge] (1976) is a brilliant film made by the late Jamaa Fanaka. Shot on location in Watts, California, and with a cast of mostly non-professional actors; this film is a great example of vivid and independent filmmaking in the 1970s.
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I’m going through archival photos of my historically Black HS + HBCU + I’m moved to tears. Our ancestors fought so fiercely for our education. To see the faces of the women who helped make that possible, to know that I am living within the futures they envisioned… my goodness.
My latest for @PsychToday.
“I don’t want to burn down the church, but I don’t have a problem dismantling the aspects that are harming people,” Taylor told Christian Today.
“The reason that we built this site is because I love the church and I love what the church can and should be. But what it is currently does not mirror that at all.”
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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Rare 1967 footage showing how traditional drums in Ghana were used to send messages over short and long distances, and even perform traditional poetry.
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After beating prostate cancer twice, Montell Jordan has a message for Black men
The ‘This Is How We Do It’ singer is being honored in Atlanta by A²CES for turning his cancer journey into a mission to promote early detection.
uatl.com/entertainment/2026/…
Thanks @ThePeriodDoctor for a deeply informative, liberating, and humanizing discussion!
Your voice and perspective are so needed 🫶🏾✨
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The boys be going into ministry when what they really yearn for is community theater. You don’t wanna go to seminary you wanna do Death of a Salesman and that’s ok. Stay up out them people’s bible school and do CATS.
