The American Minervan

Tag: reflections

  • Anti-Blackness as World Norm

    Anti-Blackness as World Norm

    Thoughts on Anti-Blackness as the norm in the world, asks “Do I Live in Your World?” DO I LIVE IN YOUR WORLD We do not live in “a White man’s world,” and certainly not in the world of the racists and anti-blackness far and wide across this planet. Is this not what we are taught…

  • Early Reflection on my Journey to Greece: Black Classicism, Childhood and American Identity

    Early Reflection on my Journey to Greece: Black Classicism, Childhood and American Identity

    I just returned abroad from my journey to the island of Hydra (Gr:  Ύδρα, romanized: Ýdra) and Athens in Greece back home to the state of Illinois and came back very happily engaged to my beautiful partner. It has been over two years since I went on a trip through a tour agency to Italy…