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Examining White Privilege: Inventory

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 7, 2023. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 8 Comments on Examining White Privilege: Inventory

This is the 3rd installment of examining white privilege as a spiritual discipline. I’ve talked in previous posts about the “why” of examining white privilege as a spiritual discipline and the “when.” This installment focuses on the inventory phase that traditionally begins spiritual disciplines, including that of examining...

Black History Month Recs: ALL

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 3, 2023. Posted in General, Racism to Reconciliation, Writing. 2 Comments on Black History Month Recs: ALL

Here it is! What you’ve all been waiting for! All 28 recs for Black History Month on Black authors whose work I love! Seriously, that’s what it is. February 1 I’ll start with American fiction writer Charles Himes. He’s best known for his Harlem detective series with Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. But I’d like to...

Black History Month Recs: Last

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 28, 2023. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation, Writing. 2 Comments on Black History Month Recs: Last

The end of February has arrived. Thus has my last installment on Black History Month recs. Go here for the earlier recs on Black Authors whose work I love. And now for the last! February 23 Mississippi author Linda Jackson’s Middle Grade novel Midnight Without a Moon is a delight. I fell in love with the protagonist from the get-go. The descriptive...

Black History Month Authors: Part 4

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 23, 2023. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation, Writing. 4 Comments on Black History Month Authors: Part 4

Or maybe this is part 3. I’m getting lost. Whatever, here’s the latest (and penultimate) installment during Black History Month with recommendations on Black authors whose work I love. You can read earlier recs here. February 16 I came to Octavia Butler so late in life it’s embarrassing. My only excuse is that I haven’t been much...

Recs on Black Authors: Part 3

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 16, 2023. Posted in General, Racism to Reconciliation, Writing. 3 Comments on Recs on Black Authors: Part 3

it may not be time for the 3rd installment in my recs on Black authors during Black History Month, but I’m ready to do it. You can see the 2nd installment here which will link you to the first as well. February 10 I started Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones, and never finished it. I thought, to be honest with her plot, Ward couldn’t let...

Black History Month Authors

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 12, 2023. Posted in General, Racism to Reconciliation, Writing. 4 Comments on Black History Month Authors

Time for the second installment of Black History Month authors (you can read the first set of authors here). Some you’ll know, others might be new. I hope you enjoy them all. February 5 Crystal Wilkinson is a Affrilachian poet and fiction writer from Kentucky. I was lucky enough to study under her at The Glen last summer. We arrived,...

Black Authors in February

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 4, 2023. Posted in Writing. No Comments on Black Authors in February

It’s a mashup, I admit that. This February during Black History Month, over in the Fediverse, I’m sharing a recommendation a day on Black authors whose work I love. So, for all you folks not on Mastodon, I’ll occasionally re-share here these Black authors in February recs. If you follow this blog, some you’ll be familiar...

My Heart is in Memphis

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 28, 2023. Posted in Featured, Racism to Reconciliation. 7 Comments on My Heart is in Memphis

First, there is racism. I will keep reposting this until it is no longer true. Again. And again and again. Why do killings keep happening? Because, in America, first, there is racism. Tyre D. Nichols’ photography can be viewed here: T. Nichols Photography A photo of Tyre D. Nichols at his memorial service

White Privilege as Spiritual Discipline: When

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 22, 2023. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 8 Comments on White Privilege as Spiritual Discipline: When

When I wrote about examining white privilege as a spiritual discipline, I had no idea how unoriginal it was. Turns out, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Adventists, Unitarian Universalists, United Church of Christ, Mennonites, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists–all acknowledge examining white privilege as a spiritual discipline. Apparently,...

Our Different Realities

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 16, 2023. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 10 Comments on Our Different Realities

On this Martin Luther King Day, I acknowledge a truth. The years of us white folks embedding racism in American society has warped our perception. We whites see different realities from Black folk, every day, day-by-day. If I’m inside the white community, I experience life in America differently than those who aren’t. How Different...