Listen to almost any critic of so-called[1] Critical Race Theory, and eventually they will say that the teaching of some lessons and books causes white students to feel uncomfortable. …

Masking is a quintessential part of traditional African life. Masquerades, as traditions, are ritualized performances of those cultural truths that serve the holistic needs of the communities within which they occur (Chielotam, 2015). According to Molinta (2014), masquerades help shape, and influence, a people’s social universe. In masquerades, designated community…

According to African American folk-epistemology, a Boo Hag is a shapeshifter of nefarious repute*. Like their Caribbean counterparts — the soucouyants, Boo Hags are blood thirsty beings that sneak into homes to feast on sleeping bodies. Almost always depicted as unattractive women, these entities are known to shed their human…

Given our current socio-political-cultural-economic reality, it is imperative that Black people develop a mentality that allows us to focus on ourselves, build partnerships and institutions, create relationships with allies, and learn to be as proactively self-sufficient as possible. …