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Juneteenth: General Order 3

There was no offer of income, or other funds to allow the newly formerly enslaved people to move about freely. No employment offers. No suggestions on where the free could live freely. He didn’t even tell them that their former enslavers would be compensated by the government for the loss of their forced laborers.

Poem: Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Make me a grave where’er you will, In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill; Make it among earth’s humblest graves, But not in a land where men are slaves. I could not rest if around my grave I heard the steps of a trembling slave; His shadow above my silentContinueContinue reading “Poem: Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances Harper”

We Are All Bound Up Together

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1866 I feel I am something of a novice upon this platform. Born of a race whose inheritance has been outrage and wrong, most of my life had been spent in battling against those wrongs. But I did not feel as keenly as others, that I had these rights, in commonContinueContinue reading “We Are All Bound Up Together”

I AM WOMAN: An Introduction

Looking Back to Move Forward In February 2018, I quit my corporate job with a determination to work and live as a writer and photographer. A few months later, several interests coalesced into a photo essay book idea that has become I AM WOMAN: Expressions of Black Womanhood in America. I AM WOMAN comes fromContinueContinue reading “I AM WOMAN: An Introduction”

Thoughts from the Road: Purifying Change

Since mid-March, I’ve been traveling across the country. I hit the road after selling my home in Southern Arizona. There were no immediate thoughts on where to pitch my tent next, so I decided to roam a bit and see where the Spirit led.  Before Covid-19, I thought I’d travel abroad for a few monthsContinueContinue reading “Thoughts from the Road: Purifying Change”