COLUMNIST: LA VONDA R. STAPLES

We've heard it. We've seen it. We've felt it. We live it. The contract American society has taken out against Black ...

I can't say that I'm against the death penalty. I only know that I love my children so much that I feel that the person ...

We had been out in the fields all day. Working. Not saying a word just working. Picking that cotton, man. It's almo ...

Before my grandmother was a grandmother she was an aunt. She had older brothers but she was the eldest sister in her fa ...

I think the majority of Black men whom I speak with on a daily basis are not African American men. I regularly interfac ...

For some reason my Monday Wednesday class is at 96 percent capacity. I only lost two students and since I was teaching i ...

In the racial landscape of America it should be a pre-requisite for all citizens to sit, stare into space, and commit mo ...

I love you my Black American women. We got no daddies with shotguns. We got no big brothers to defend our honour. And so ...

I went down home in 1970. It was the year I turned four. I wasn't the only one traveled with them that night. My cous ...

I am the person who exists, breathes, acts and responds when no one is watching or when there is someone in my presence ...

Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming. You might think it's too early to think about it. I can't help it. I do. If ...

It's like a kind of prison really. A prison in which seats are in high demand. They want to be there. We ...

Telling someone to forgive and forget, when you aren't present for their nightly parade of memories of the past, is some ...

www.lavondastaples.com Africa? Where did I meet her? I first heard of her from a real live African when I was in the ...

Good morning. I've had my time of reflection. I've shed tears of grief, again, for the loss of my grandmother. It's time ...

Sisters and brothers I would have been so very wrong if I had kept these things to myself. I couldn't hold it. I belie ...