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K. Danielle Edwards

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BlackCommentator.com Columnist K. Danielle Edwards - a Black full-time working mother and wife, with a penchant for prose, a heart for poetry, a love of books and culture, a liking of fashion and style, a knack for news and an obsession with facts - beating the odds, defying the statistics. Sister Edwards is a Nashville-based writer, poet and communications professional, seeking 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 BLACK MARRIED MOMMA, ParentingExpress, Magazine, The Black World Today, Africana.com, The Tennessean and other publications. She is the author of Stacey Jones: Memoirs of Girl & Woman, Body & Spirit, Life & Death (2005) and is the founder and creative director of The Pen: An Exercise in the Cathartic Potential of the Creative Act, a nonprofit creative writing project designed for incarcerated and disadvantaged populations. Click here to contact Ms. Edwards

34 pieces

Commentary

Black (W)hole – A Poem – From The Fringe

By K. Danielle Edwards Columnist

The current issue is always free to everyone We are made eternal Living like we’re ephemeral Betwixt the inferno A purgatory self-made From non-decisions and non-choices Blind to the normal-para Deaf to the voices Playing favorites by claiming none Stuck in the middle Pretending it’s a riddle Don’t want to misspeak or offend Kowtowing a…

The current issue is always free to everyone We are made eternal Living like we’re ephemeral Betwixt the inferno A purgatory self-made From non-decisions and non-choices…

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Commentary

From The Fringe: Keep Your Tokens – No Black Passes Accepted Here

By K. Danielle Edwards Columnist

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HELP!!! We are facing a $50,000 shortfall from now until December. With money getting tight for so many people, the number of new BC Paid Subscribers…

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Commentary

From The Fringe: The Right Side of the Tracks?

By K. Danielle Edwards Columnist

Less than a month ago, my husband, daughter and I moved from one side of town to another. We left the environs of what was once perceived and touted as an area that was welcomingly diverse in terms of race, economics, religion and social strata until about five years ago. It was – and is…

Less than a month ago, my husband, daughter and I moved from one side of town to another. We left the environs of what was once…

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Commentary

From The Fringe: Young, Gifted?, and Black

By K. Danielle Edwards Columnist

Parenthood makes one reflect upon his or her childhood with a clarity never before possible. For me, the latest scenario providing new lucidity into my own upbringing was the specter of securing the best educational and social opportunities for my now three-year-old daughter. I used to roll my eyes and turn up my lips when…

Parenthood makes one reflect upon his or her childhood with a clarity never before possible. For me, the latest scenario providing new lucidity into my own…

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Guest Commentary

The Other Side of the Rainbow: Visiting A Friend Who Has AIDS

By K. Danielle Edwards Columnist

And it wasn’t the first time I plotted my steps, counting in my head as each landing was completed – heel, toe, heel, toe, heel, toe. I felt outside of my body, beyond my natural self, and viewed myself as bumbling brashly with the careless and uncoordinated steps of a toddler. I was teetering on…

And it wasn’t the first time I plotted my steps, counting in my head as each landing was completed – heel, toe, heel, toe, heel, toe.…

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Guest Commentary

Polarized: Bi-Polar Disorder and the Ghosts That Haunt

By K. Danielle Edwards Columnist

When you’re black, the odds against you begin rolling before you like an uncontrolled ream of painter’s tape without enough adhesive to stick. Sometimes the naiveté of youth or absorption in pop culture deludes us, or at least extends the expiration date of the blinders of distraction. But for many of us, once you hit…

When you’re black, the odds against you begin rolling before you like an uncontrolled ream of painter’s tape without enough adhesive to stick. Sometimes the naiveté…

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Guest Commentary

Reluctant Remembrances

By K. Danielle Edwards Columnist

They are the faces in my high school yearbook from my freshman year. It was 1993. Headshots of little black faces sprinkled between lighter ones, peering out in cookie-cutter squares on page after page. Some smile affably, others grin close-lipped, a good share look blank-faced and placeless. Youth smiled on them with the bravado and…

They are the faces in my high school yearbook from my freshman year. It was 1993. Headshots of little black faces sprinkled between lighter ones, peering…

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