“Stop being black!” This succinct advice from my father perhaps best summarizes how to protect oneself from hostile encounters with the police. If you can manage to shed your race, then you have already diffused the situation immensely. However,...
Did you watch the Cohen's Congressional testimony today?! Whew Chillay! I thought it would be explosive, and it did not disappoint.
There were many different topics I wanted to cover, but I've narrowed it down to two important lessons we...
When was the last time you allowed yourself to be bored? I don't simply mean when was the last time you found yourself with nothing exciting or fun to do. Nor do I mean when was the last time...
I love my family and love to support them. So when my little cousin, Shawnynce Sutton, sent me a copy of a poem/story she wrote for English class, I just HAD to share it with you all. Her assignment...
If you would have asked me ten years ago where I saw myself in ten years, it might have gone something like this: Married with at least one child, well established in my career as a civil rights lawyer...
Like many of you, I was mortified to learn of the acts of violence that erupted last Friday night in Paris, leaving more than 150 people dead, and countless others wounded physically and emotionally. My feelings of horror were...
When I was a child I was fortunate to have people in my life that told me I could be whatever I wanted to be. That if I just put my mind to it (however elusive and nebulous “it”...
A while back, my mother and I had a discussion on the idea of perfectionism, and people’s assertion that they are perfectionist. My mom, who I suspect was having flashbacks of aggravating former colleagues, rejected the idea that any...
One of the major downfalls that I have observed from formerly successful people is not that the work simply dried up, or that they were no longer popular. Rather, they surrounded themselves with toxic people who led them to...
According to the Briggs Myer Personality test, I am an INFJ. I am introverted with a quiet and reserved disposition. Even though I have used Palooke’s World as a space to share perhaps more than I would normally, outside...