Prayer as Reaching Beyond
Prayer as a State of Consciousness Prayer can be understood as “reaching beyond” fear, worry,…
Leaving the Earth Better Than We Found Her
What We Inherit We inherited the earth from those who came before us, and one…
Living Mysticism: Strengthening My Bond With the God of My Heart
Mysticism Must Be Lived Mysticism is more than something we study. It is about strengthening…
Why Your Vote Is Secret
When Voting Was Public Early American voting was often public. In some places, voters announced…
Equal Rules, Unequal Starting Points
The Race Did Not Start Fairly Imagine one runner starting a race 100 meters ahead….
At a Certain Age, We Have to Tell the Truth About Why We Are Still Single
Sometimes We Have to Look at Ourselves Being single is not always something that simply…
My Aunt Ruthie Told Me: Life Comes in Seasons
Stop Calling Everything Success or Failure My Aunt Ruthie taught me not to judge everything…
Lil Durk Beat the Case, But He Hasn’t Walked Free
A Major Legal Victory Lil Durk was found not guilty on all five charges in…
When a Dog Bite Brings More Than a Life
The Numbers Are Hard to Ignore A jury awarded Chris Brown’s former housekeeper $12.9 million…
When the Copy Becomes the Record: What Happens When the Original Disappears?
The Book That Led to Las Vegas A 2026 investigation tracked a rare book to…
When Status Becomes the Bait: Money, Image, and the Price of Being Impressed
When I Heard the Story, I Wasn’t Surprised Federal prosecutors allege that Daejon Love posed…
When Desire Overrides Standards: Sex, Hygiene, and Self-Respect
When the Joke Reveals Something Deeper A crude online conversation about sex and hygiene raised…
The Words Were There All Along: Who Is the Farmer and What Is the Field?
Broadcast: The Seed Was Scattered Wide Before radio and television, broadcast meant scattering seed widely…
Nourishing the Body Through Menopause: Finding a New Rhythm
When the Body Begins to Change Menopause often changes the way the body responds to…
The Tongue: A Small Muscle With a Bigger Story to Tell
An Overlooked Part of the Body Most of us rarely think about the tongue unless…
You Do Not Have to Agree to Understand
Appreciating Perspective Is a Real Skill Appreciating somebody else’s perspective is one of the most…
When Disinformation Targets the Black Vote
There Was a Real Operation Behind the Screens There is something about the 2016 election…
You Are Allowed to Outgrow the Job You Once Prayed For
Sometimes the Answered Prayer Changes There is a strange kind of guilt that can come…
You Cannot Build a New Life While Carrying All of the Old One
What Our Spaces Can Reveal You can learn something about a person by looking at…
Give Your Mind Something Gentle Before Sleep
The Last Few Minutes Matter The last few minutes before sleep can shape the way…
Sometimes the Light Comes From Meeting It Halfway
Lightning Is Not Quite What It Looks Like For most of my life, I looked…
When Love Touches the Wound
The Closer We Get, the More We May Feel Nobody really tells you that getting…
Loving You Beyond the Distance
When Distance Reveals What the Heart Knows Loving you without seeing you every day has…
What Imagination Really Does to the Brain
Scientists Do Know Something About Imagination It is not quite accurate to say scientists have…
LL Cool J: One of Hip-Hop’s Original Superstars
Before Def Jam Became Def Jam Before Def Jam became one of the most important…
Online, Appearance Is Not Verification
You Can Become Almost Anybody Online The internet has made it possible for people to…
When the Fed Moves, Black America Should Pay Attention
Interest Rates Are Already About Us When the Federal Reserve raises or lowers interest rates,…
Everybody Wants Honest Feedback Until the Feedback Is Honest
The Corporate Invitation to Speak Up Almost every company says it wants employees to speak…
When the Role Becomes the Person
You Are More Than the Role You Perform Sometimes a person performs a role for…
What Actually Makes a Man Attractive
Attraction Is More Than Looks When people talk about what makes a man attractive, the…
When a Great Employee Suddenly Becomes a Problem
The Employee Who Was Excellent Until He Wanted More A few years ago, I worked…
The Grammys Are Not a Popularity Contest
How Does the Biggest Song Get Nothing? There are moments in music when you look…
Mail-In Voting Is Older Than Most Americans Realize
Go Back to the Civil War Do you know how far back absentee voting goes…
Learning to Question What I Believe
Questioning Is Part of Education If you really want to grow intellectually, you have to…
LeVar Burton: Take a Bow, These Flowers Are Yours
Butterfly in the Sky “Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high.” If…
Sinbad: Give Him His Flowers While He Is Still Here
The Sinbad I Remember There are entertainers you remember discovering, and then there are people…
When You Leave the Relationship but the Pattern Stays
When Pain Changes the Way You See Yourself There comes a point when you realize…
Not Knowing What Comes Next
The Future Is Supposed to Be Unclear There are times when I wish I could…
The Pledge of Allegiance: Tradition, Ritual, and the Meaning We Give It
A Ritual We Learned Before We Knew What Ritual Meant There is something millions of…
When the Story You Believe Helps Create the Outcome
The Belief That Helps Create Its Own Proof Sometimes we think a belief is just…
Choose the Human Being Over the Story
Bias Is Already in the Room Workplaces are already carrying enough stress, uncertainty, pressure, and…
The War Between Two Opposing Thoughts
When the Mind Feels Divided There is something deeply uncomfortable about holding two opposing beliefs…
Why Many Older Men Become More Selective About Relationships
The Change Usually Happens Slowly For many older men, becoming more selective about relationships does…
Age Discrimination Rarely Announces Itself
What It Usually Looks Like Age discrimination rarely walks into the room and announces itself…
Translate Up: Do Not Just Report to Your Boss
Your Boss Does Not Need Every Detail One of the strongest communication skills you can…
The Three Battles Every Man Has to Face
The First Battle Is With Yourself Kendrick Lamar once expressed an idea that has stayed…
Attraction Is Usually a Pattern, Not One Secret Signal
Women Usually Do Not Announce Attraction A woman is probably not going to walk across…
The Three Kinds of Workplace Politics
Politics Are Already in the Room Three different kinds of politics now coexist in most…
The GI Bill, the Suburbs, and the Black Americans Left Behind
The Color of Law Changes the Way You See the Map One of the most…
Same Diagnosis, Different Voices: What Culture May Teach Us About the Mind
Sixty People, Three Different Worlds Sixty people were living with serious psychotic illness and hearing…