As I reflect on my grandmother, I understand the rule of thumb instilled in her to live by and fear Jim Crow –– a fictitious name but one with real life ramifications. My great grandfather was on the run from…
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Real Talk | Surviving COVID-19
by Sherry Cannon • • 1 Comment
Last month I wrote this column about how I was managing sheltering in place. Little did I know at the time, that I was also surviving COVID-19. In March and April, I was hospitalized –– both times with chest pain,…
Real Talk | How I’m managing “sheltering in place”
by Sherry Cannon • • 1 Comment
The experience of sheltering in place for someone living alone is different than it is for those who live with a spouse, significant other and/or children. Without distractions you do one of two things; you worry excessively or you pray…
Real Talk | Searching for little messiahs
by Kamara Taylor • • 0 Comments
How can we see through the lies of others when we are longing for the truth? The way our mind is set up, we look for others to lead us to the truth. This path for truth comes in different…
Real Talk | A Republic, if we can keep it
by Sherry Cannon • • 0 Comments
What happened to the purist Republican Senate during the trial of Bill Clinton? In 1999, President Clinton was charged and impeached by the House of Representatives for lying under oath and obstruction of justice. The independent counsel who brought the…
Real Talk | The problem with the Feminist Movement
by Sherry Cannon • • 1 Comment
Black and white women have always held different perspectives around the right to vote. For white women, it was a symbol of parity with their husbands and brothers. For Black women, the ballot box was a means of empowering Black…
Real Talk | When the smoke clears: The legalization of marijuana in Illinois
by Kamara Taylor • • 0 Comments
Implicit biases that still exist with marijuana stem from “refer madness” from the early 1950s. Those biases were geared toward individuals living in poverty and the escape provided by marijuana. The mythology of marijuana is that it causes aggression; it…
Real Talk | Deep state or deep six
by Sherry Cannon • • 0 Comments
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again. As we go through another saga with the most corrupt administration in this…
Real Talk | Post fear of prior trauma
by Kamara Taylor • • 0 Comments
How does trauma impact our lives? How do we get over fear that events that harmed us in the past now play on the anxiety over our future? With my daily interactions with people, there is so much pain that…
Real Talk | True Justice
by Sherry Cannon • • 0 Comments
I recently watched the documentary “True Justice” which tells the story of Bryan Stevenson, the attorney who started the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala. Not unlike his book “Just Mercy,” it was a difficult watch and took me five…