by Erskine | Oct 29, 2026 | Blogs
Sometimes, the first sign that something is changing arrives in an ordinary conversation. A barber mentions that regular customers are stretching the time between appointments. A shop owner notices that people who once browsed now head straight for the essentials. At...
by Erskine | Oct 28, 2026 | Blogs
Our utopia has to be a place we can build toward. It should give Black families more freedom to choose their futures and more security in the places they call home. Over the past year, people and institutions across the United States have made that horizon more...
by Erskine | Oct 12, 2026 | Blogs
From slavery to Black Wall Street, from broken promises to generations of government studies, America’s unpaid debt to Black Americans is not a mystery. It is a matter of political will. America knows how to pay reparations. It has demonstrated that ability...
by Erskine | Oct 10, 2026 | Blogs
It is 12:57 am Saturday morning Friday night 10/10/2026. What follows is an evolving collection of metaphors, similes, parables, short fables, affirmations, inspirations, brief poems, and other reflections. Some are wholly original. Others may have begun as fragments...
by Erskine | Oct 8, 2026 | Blogs
For centuries, ravens have appeared in folklore as omens of darkness, death, and misfortune. Even a gathering of ravens has been poetically called an unkindness or a conspiracy, names that reflect centuries of suspicion surrounding this remarkable bird. Yet science...
by Erskine | Sep 11, 2026 | Blogs
Who Decided That Written History Was Automatically More Trustworthy? For generations, Black Americans have been asked to prove our history using records created by institutions that often had little interest in recording our experiences accurately. A document written...
