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Haitians in the US Imagination

Recently, 350,000 Haitians who had been living and working in the US have been stripped of their temporary legal status and are now subject to detention and deportation, just weeks after the Supreme Court sided with the Executive Branch in a dispute over the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.

Femicide

The Limits of Laws and What South African Women Are Teaching Us

Can You Dig It? Blaxploitation Now, Then and Forever!

(As experienced at Comicpalooza University, 2026)

Imagining Life on Mars

A scientist, a historian and a theologian… almost everyone I mentioned this do said,” walk into a bar!” It does sound like the first line of a joke, but Stanford Carpenter, the “provost” of Comicpalooza University asked me to moderate a panel of the three because of its complexity.

Nostalgia, Memory and Erasure

I recently participated in a panel on Nostalgia at the 2026 Comicpalooza in Houston.

“Not My Child”

It was summertime.

The Right to Vote

Voting Day was special. I was a little Black girl, sitting in the back seat of our car, watching.

Time for the Religious Left to Show Itself

The religious and spiritual Left needs a PR campaign.

Black People, Palestinians and Watermelons

Photo courtesy of Duron Chavis, Instagram

Politics and Other Bloodsports

We often use the metaphors of sports and games to discuss politics—horse racing, tennis, chess.