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Toward a (not so) New Way of Being Black in the World: Ubuntu
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” ― Octavia E. Butler A few days ago, I was searching through my digital...

DRM, PhD
Jun 7, 20239 min read
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Standing At the Edge: Centering Blackness and People of the Global Majority in DEI
“I stood at the border, stood at the edge and claimed it as central. l claimed it as central and let the rest of the world move over to...

DRM, PhD
May 29, 202313 min read
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Racial Trauma: Bearing Witness & Claiming Space
Dear Friends, Sawubona! We see you! As I turn on the television or pop on NPR in the car, I am reminded of the phrase from Fred Moten’s...

DRM, PhD
Apr 5, 202110 min read
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DEI & Privilege: The Luxury of a Journey & The Necessity of an Expedition
At the beginning of the year, I embarked on my own adventure by leaving the academic world to take a position at a local healthcare...

DRM, PhD
Mar 28, 20217 min read
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Letting It Be True
February 24, 2021 “That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again....

DRM, PhD
Feb 24, 20214 min read
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Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing: 2021
Happy New Year! My God! Thank you! Everyday of the last year something has tried to kill me and has failed! We did it! You made it! So...

DRM, PhD
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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Calling Upon All of the Enraged: Speak Their Names
Calling Upon All of the Enraged: Speak Their Names

DRM, PhD
Jun 3, 20207 min read
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Quarantine Sunday: A Change Gotta Come
It's Sunday, April 19, we are quarantined and I have: 1,664 unread work emails, a grant for $500K to write for a new program at XU,...

DRM, PhD
Apr 19, 20202 min read
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Checking In: A Letter to My Colleagues - Cling to Community
Please remember: we are more than the work we can produce. Our humanity can never be simply reduced to labor. We are a community.

DRM, PhD
Mar 27, 20202 min read
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