Writings

The Real Reasons Why The Trump-Harris Debate Had Little Impact On Undecided Voters Admittedly, I did not watch the Trump Harris Debate. Admittedly I could neither watch nor listen to former president Donald J. Trump. I decided instead to watch clips of the debate and listen to the post-debate pundits on both CNN and MSNBC. Most interesting on both cable news channels were the interviews with the so-called “undecided voters,” many of whom indicated that they did not know

CHALLENGES FACING ERIC ADAMS, THE MAYOR-ELECT OF NEW YORK CITY: WILL HE SUCCEED? On January 1st, 2022, Eric Adams, will become the second black mayor of New York City, fresh off a trip to Ghana where he experienced a “spiritual cleansing” and blessings for a term as mayor of possibly the most unique and challenging city in the nation. In my opinion, he will certainly need all of the spiritual cleansing and blessings he can muster up; as New York City is awash in problems that

OVALTINE, APPLE BUTTER, AND BLUEFISH My paternal grandmother gave birth to eleven children------------my father, Alfred, Uncle Paul; Uncle Donald; Uncle Larry; Aunt Edythe; Aunt Virginia; Aunt Lillian; Aunt Ruth; Aunt Yvonne; Aunt June; and Aunt Alice, the oldest of the siblings and the one whose memory has stayed with me for all my seventy-seven years. Aunt Alice had no children and I believe she was attached to me because I was her first-born niece. Aunt Alice lived in a

HOW MY LOVE OF LITERATURE IMPACTED THE DECISION THAT CHANGED MY LIFE By BRENDA S. WILLIAMS What do Edward Allan Poe, O. Henry and Edwin Arlington Robinson have to do with the decision that changed my life forever? Let's just say instead of invoking Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken", let us substitute the word "not" for the word "finally". As a female youngster growing up in the mid-forties, fifties and sixties, I became acutely aware of who I was, how my parents fit

WHAT JESSE JACKSON’S FUNERAL BROUGHT TO MIND: A MESSAGE FOR WHITE SUPREMACISTS On Saturday morning March 7, 2026, I sat at my desk in my study, and from my big screen desk-top computer, watched the civil rights activist, the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson’s livestreamed funeral service. Appropriately, the service was held at the Rainbow PUSH Headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, the place for which he was most known. Two days prior to this last event, I was directed by my pri

ITHE UNUSUAL BANK EXPERIENCE I had just approached the bank teller’s window, relieved that not only did I not have to wait, but the bank appeared to be lacking in the long lines that I was used to seeing. Where was everyone? Perhaps I had just happened on a good time to do my banking. While trying to negotiate my cane, my handbag, my bank card and the two checks that were to be deposited into my bank account, my fingers kept cramping up on me. A former orthopedic physician

HOLIDAY MEMORIES OF A DIVORCED WIDOW It was December 11, 2020, a Sunday morning during the height of the COVID 19 Pandemic that I sought hope, enlightenment, joy and meaning in the livestream presentation of composer George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, performed by the historically famous Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City, in the village of Harlem. Almost instinctively I thought about my ex-husband, wishing I could telephone him and encourage him to watch the perform

He was a big man;-----muscular, relatively good-looking, seasoned, well-known in the community, well liked, out-going, friendly,...

On June 29, 2023 in a majority vote of six to three, The Supreme Court ruled that Affirmative Action or “race-conscious admissions”...

Your children are not potter’s clay and no matter how hard you try to mold your children into your vision or perhaps a vision of your...