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The Art of the Meal

My husband can take canned vegetables, like green beans or spinach, and make you swear they were fresh when he started.  While this is a skill you may never see celebrated on cooking channels, it sure enough works for us. Our plates are the orphaned lids of Tupperware containers. The cup that holds melted butter…

“Take my hand, precious Lord. Lead me home.”

This is the seventh in a series of excerpts from my memoir, The Edge of All the Light You Have. It follows “How can we be reconciled….” In January of 1970, a white man sat having a cup of coffee in the Baptist Building in Raleigh. He was perusing The News & Observer for articles about the shooting…

The Lynching of Noah Cherry

The intersections of infamy in our Southern history astound me. When I was growing up, no one ever mentioned that there had been a lynching in Princess Anne County, right around the corner from my grandparents’ farm.  The first time I learned about Noah Cherry was in 2019, at the Legacy Museum of the Equal…

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