Racism to Reconciliation Archives - Ellen Morris Prewitt

Anti-Lynching Today

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 16, 2022. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 2 Comments

I cannot recommend this book on anti-lynching. In the original writings in The Light of Truth, Ida B. Wells aims to stop lynching by showing the facts. At the time, white America claimed lynching was a terrible but understandable reaction to Black men raping white women. It wasn’t. White Americans lynched Black Americans to enforce the...

The South and America

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 10, 2022. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. Leave a Comment

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation If anyone doubts the premise of Imani Perry’s book South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, all they have to do is look to the lawsuit poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. As Mississippi was the author of strategies...

Reparations Action

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 28, 2022. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 8 Comments

This is the 7th installment in my reparations series where we’ll turn from background to action. Click to read the introduction. Continue with background facts about me and the salacious real me facts. I’ve included some warnings, plus the joy of reparative work. My last post I told you the “why” of choosing creative writing as...

Reparations: Why Creative Writing

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 4, 2022. Posted in Featured, General, In the Name of Mississippi novel, Racism to Reconciliation. 6 Comments

This is the 6th installment in my reparations series. Click to read the introduction. Continue with background facts about me and the salacious real me facts. I’ve included some warnings, plus the joy of reparative work. Today, we turn to what led me to take up reparations. Fiction Leads to Fact Twice, I’ve delved into my...

Reparative Work

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 25, 2022. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 2 Comments

A scene from our reparations journey: We sit in the office of Dr. Ebony Lumumba, the Chair of the English Department at Jackson State University. We’re discussing the amazing conversation the night before on the stage of the McCoy Auditorium between Dr. Lumumba and Imani Perry. Dr. Perry was discussing her new book, South to America. (as soon as...

What We Owe to Black Women

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 17, 2022. Posted in General, Racism to Reconciliation. 6 Comments

In honor of Black History Month, I’m letting you in on something I’ve learned. America owes a debt to Black women for moving us toward democracy. You might already know this. I didn’t. I learned about these heroes reading the excellent book, “She Took Justice,” by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall. She Took Justice Browne-Marshall...

Reparations Warnings

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 1, 2022. Posted in General, Racism to Reconciliation. 4 Comments

Before we get into reparations warnings, I want to thank y’all who’ve contacted me to let me know you’re reading or were intrigued to read The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. I truly loved this collection of stories (as you can tell from my review), and I’m glad to have successfully shared my joy. Next we continue my reparations...

Reparations: the Real Me Facts

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 28, 2022. Posted in General, Racism to Reconciliation. 15 Comments

In my first post of this reparations journey, I didn’t tell you everything you need to know. The next part isn’t easy, and it would be simple to ignore it and leave it out. But it goes to the heart of the question: why am I making this journey at all? So. The Salacious Part My dad died when I was three years old. If you’ve...

Reparations: Me Facts

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 15, 2022. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 4 Comments

I’ve been writing about race for almost as long as I’ve had this blog. Even before this early post using the metaphor of building a house on a cliff. Specifically, I’ve written about reparations, such as this post on the Mississippi that could have been. My 2022 reparations undertaking is not new. It is focused. I thought some...

New Blog Features 2022

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 4, 2022. Posted in General, LAWYER, Racism to Reconciliation, Writing. 4 Comments

Good and happy 2022. In this new year, I’m making some blog changes. I actually intend to have regular features, which I’ve never done before (I’m an associative person; I follow ideas laterally; I’m very productive but hardly linear.) My news: I’m adding new blog features! New Blog Features The first of the three...