Kenya Allmond (me)

Poet, activist and scholar Sonia Sanchez keynoted the kickoff event for The George Washington University’s Black Heritage Celebration last night.  I was fortunate to be in attendance as I found out about the event just yesterday.  Sanchez talked about ways she and others organized to effect change and how she’s still doing so even at [...]

So I’m minding my business at the Arena Stage Homecoming Grand Opening Celebration and I hear a guy get loud.  When I turned around I see this guy yelling at his girlfriend (I assume) “I’m not going to argue with you!”  She responded that she isn’t arguing as he hurriedly walked away.  She looked frustrated [...]

I’ve been saying all year that it seems that everyone wants to pick on Black women. The latest is Jawn Murray’s comment about ” militant-nappy headed #angryblack women”.  If I were in his presence and he said it, I’d probably just pull out a mirror.  Look at the way he wears his own hair. If [...]

1992: My boyfriend (at the time) and I were driving 200 miles from Washington, DC, to our hometown Chesapeake, Virginia, in the dead of winter.  He didn’t have heat in his car so we stopped in Lightfoot, Virginia, for coffee to warm up.  While we’re in a 7-Eleven, a white man came in and asked [...]

Today is Blog Action Day but I was already thinking of doing this post when I saw one of my Facebook friends ask why more Christians aren’t involved in the green movement. This might be a controversial post or it may not be. Sometimes we create controversy where none actually exist. I am a Christian [...]