K. Danielle Edwards

Black women are accustomed to being referred to and treated as females and workhorses, but not ladies. We are at once the clean-up woman whose tenacity, independence and bull-headedness may render us manless, or increasingly taking care of them in an inversion of traditional gender roles, a la the latest head-nodding about-face to the sistas…

“Tool up.” “They’re buying racks and racks of ammunition. There were spots where there was none left.” “You better have a security plan in place.” These were not words uttered in a frontier dialect from the lips of NRA members. Instead, they were the voices of friends and family. Their voices and phrases sounded in…

BlackCommentator.com Columnist K. Danielle Edwards, a Nashville-based writer, poet and communications professional, seeks to make the world a better place, one decision and one action at a time. To her, parenting is a protest against the odds, and marriage is a living mantra for forward movement. Her work has appeared in MotherVerse Literary Journal, ParentingExpress,…

BlackCommentator.com Columnist K. Danielle Edwards, a Nashville-based writer, poet and communications professional, seeks to make the world a better place, one decision and one action at a time. To her, parenting is a protest against the odds, and marriage is a living mantra for forward movement. Her work has appeared in MotherVerse Literary Journal, ParentingExpress,…

On Friday evening (April 11, 2008), MSNBC aired “Meeting David Wilson,” a documentary in which a 28-year-old African-American by that very namesake goes to North Carolina in search of his roots, ultimately meeting the white contemporaries of the family that had enslaved his own, and traveling to Ghana, his homeland of origin as revealed by…

Surely, my eyes were deceiving me. It was like a black-faced freak show – circa early 20th century, post-Reconstruction, pre-Jim Crow – had mistakenly gone to print in the Age of Obama, with the implied headline, “Lebron James Stars as King Kong.” As I blinked bewilderingly, shook my head and rolled my eyes to make…

BlackCommentator.com Columnist K. Danielle Edwards, a Nashville-based writer, poet and communications professional, seeks to make the world a better place, one decision and one action at a time. To her, parenting is a protest against the odds, and marriage is a living mantra for forward movement. Her work has appeared in MotherVerse Literary Journal, ParentingExpress,…

The current issue is always free to everyone Last Saturday was a particularly memorable World Aids Day for me. I didn’t wear a red ribbon. I didn’t march in an awareness-raising parade. I didn’t fashion a square for the AIDS quilt. I didn’t sign up to participate in an experimental drug trial for a potential…

The current issue is always free to everyone I now know how my mother must have felt when she was mistaken for the cleaning lady when she opened the front door of her own house, more than two decades ago. Sometimes, it’s the little things – the looks exchanged, the words whispered, the meanings inferred…