Recently, I was reading a back issue of the #AARPMagazine and was delighted to see that at age 77, actress #HelenMirren is getting roles in a series, just as #Merylstreep is also getting TV roles in popular series like “Only Murders in the Building” (https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/meryl-streep-only-murders-in-the-building-season-3-hulu-1235489810/) at age 73. After my…

Photo Opt: Irma (C) with Dr. Yolanda Moses, first Black President of The American Anthropology Association, (R) and originator of the Race exhibit idea, and Dr. Arlene Torres (L), at 1500sf RACE: Are We So Different exhibit on Capital Hill for the Black Congressional Caucus. Circa 2010 Thirteen years ago…

Dear Reader, I recently discovered that in Portuguese the word, Irmã, means “sister.” It is the same way that my name is spelled. …

“Old pirates, yes, they rob I/ Sold I to the merchant ships/ Minutes after they took I/ From the bottomless pit/ But my hand was made strong/ By the hand of the Almighty/ We forward in this generation/ Triumphantly/… Won’t you help to sing/ These songs of freedom?/ ’Cause all…

Here in Plateau, Alabama, the group stops at the entrance of the Africatown Cemetery and one elder Black woman shakes her head. She speaks solemnly: “Something is not right; the ancestors are not happy.” She tells us: The ancestors are speaking; they say: “We are calling you. Listen.” When elder…

Hispanics/Latinos/Latinx — BEWARE As recently as 2022, Pew Center for Research noted that approximately 25% of Latino/a/x/e’s self-identified as Afrolatin, and among those 1/3 identified as Black, effectively 4–6 million self-idenified in the U.S. In changing the Categorizations, it will severely hamper any further opportunity we, the Afrolatinx community has…

I am pissed off and decided to write about how Black women and other nonwhites have been fu*kedb/ failed by the Diversity profession and leadership in corporations, nonprofits, and academia. It is my up close and very personal reaction to a #LinkedIN posting. …

I count myself among that generation of Black anthropologists and writers strongly influenced by Zora’s example. I cannot say that I followed Zora’s path consciously. Nor can I say for sure now whether it was Zora who brought me to Florida to teach in the anthropology department at the University…

My family needs to heal, and communities need to know that there will be at least some accountability when police kill people like my dad, whose only crime was needing help.” Nathanial McFarland (son of Daniel Prude) Exactly two months and two days (March 23, 2020) before the murder of…