By Dr. Kaye Whitehead This is our American story: built on disillusion and disappointment, survival and sacrifice. It is not a new story, nor is it for the faint of heart. America is a beast that...

By Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead In 1642, 312 years before the beginning of the modern Civil Rights era, the first documented Black protest happened in this country. Eleven enslaved men and women...

By Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead, Special to the AFRO A few nights ago, while my sons were sitting and doing their homework, I stood at the doorway, and I just looked at them. I thought about how much I...

By Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead When I was younger, my Nana used to say that there were some things in life that were undeniably true: The earth was going to spin. Nothing was certain, but death and...

By Karsonya Whitehead As a Black woman and as a mother in America, every breath that I take is an open act of revolution and rebellion. It is a conscious decision to step into, rather than away from,...

By Karsonya Whitehead, Special to the AFRO I was raised by baby boomers: the last Jim Crow generation whose lives were shaped by the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, the words of Martin...

By Dr. Kaye Whitehead Do you know who you are? This is a question that has kept me up at night for the past 13 years. When my son was six, his predominantly White school did a play about Thanksgivi...

By Dr. Kaye Whitehead As someone who grew up in Jim Crow South Carolina, my father likes to call himself a survivor. He looked White supremacy and racial hatred in the eye, and though he has not won,...