Collecting Family Fables – Mount Carmel Campgrounds

This weekend my sister, cousin, two aunts and I returned to my father’s people’s home in Lancaster County, South Carolina. In total, I’ve only visited his hometown four times, but one of my favorite to visit is always the Mount Carmel AME Zion Campground. For all those unfamiliar, camp meeting is pretty much an all […]

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I Am Malcolm X

In honor of Malcolm X day, and the birth of the intellectual who continues to inspire activists and freedom fighters across the globe,  want to share my favorite Malcolm X speech. The Ballot or the Bullet was given on April 3, 1964 in Cleveland, Ohio, ten days prior to his pilgrimage to Mecca. It marks […]

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