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The Place of No Hope

What you discover may surprise you. Welcome to The Place of No Hope. I will be your tour guide for our time together. What you experience on your visit may surprise you. You may think that you know what awaits you, but you do not. Not unless you have been here before. First, take a…

April Fools

Fifty-two years is a lot of unfinished business. This post is drawn from parts of my memoir, From Where I Stand, a story of love that crosses time and race. In this excerpt, William Lucas and I meet again for the first time in five decades. William and I plan to meet on April 1, 2022. April…

Reckoning with Nehemiah

One of the Black singers said, “You know, it’s curious, but none of the white people I’ve ever met have ancestors who owned slaves….” We stood outside Riverside Church in New York City after morning worship, a group of white and Black singers, all of us members of the Riverside Church Choir in the late…

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