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…
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Real Talk | True Justice
by Sherry Cannon • • Comments Off on Real Talk | True Justice
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…
Real Talk | Everything is beautiful in its time
by Kamara Taylor • • Comments Off on Real Talk | Everything is beautiful in its time
In a world that is so filled with hurt and destruction, it is challenging to see the beauty in things. I spent an entire day at the gravesite of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta. As I grieved the…
Real Talk | “When They See Us”
by Sherry Cannon • • Comments Off on Real Talk | “When They See Us”
Ava DuVernay’s four-part series on the Central Park Five, “When They See Us” is currently airing on Netflix. You have to have been under a rock to not have seen the film or watched commentary about it. My daughter, niece…
Real Talk | Silence — the true murderer of humanity
by Kamara Taylor • • Comments Off on Real Talk | Silence — the true murderer of humanity
How often do we just sit back and watch things occur without speaking up? Whether that is in the form of allowing verbal bullying to occur or mentally removing oneself from a situation but physically being present. That does not…
Real Talk | Part 2: Grief hurts, but healing is complicated
by Sherry Cannon • • Comments Off on Real Talk | Part 2: Grief hurts, but healing is complicated
Webster’s dictionary has the meaning of the word “loss” as the state of feeling grief when deprived of someone or something of value; and the word “healing” meaning to make sound or whole. Since the election of Donald Trump, there…
Real Talk | Grief hurts, but healing is complicated
by Kamara Taylor • • Comments Off on Real Talk | Grief hurts, but healing is complicated
(First of two parts. Second part to be published in May.) The universal feeling that we as human beings can relate to is loss, if that is in the form of losing a job, or game, a loved one, losing…
Real Talk | They steal our Rhythm, but not our Blues
by Sherry Cannon • • Comments Off on Real Talk | They steal our Rhythm, but not our Blues
Blackface legacy is one of white supremacy and exploitation of Black identity. Historian Dale Cockrell attributed the fascination for blackface to the psyche of poor working-class white people, who felt marginalized both economically and socially and didn’t feel included in…
Real Talk | Mirrors and distorted images
by Kamara Taylor • • Comments Off on Real Talk | Mirrors and distorted images
In the current stages of the #metoo movement, I often question if women of color have a voice or if being in the background and accepting inappropriate advances have caused a rift in how women of color view themselves and…
Real Talk | How to get away with murder
by Sherry Cannon • • Comments Off on Real Talk | How to get away with murder
Jamal Khashoggi a 59-year old journalist for the Washington Post, was a Saudi Arabian national and a U.S. resident. He also was a frequent critic of Saudi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (M.B.S.) and the Saudi government policies. Khashoggi was…