The Gathering Spot
- April 18, 2021
- by
- Lisa Mei
The DC location already has more than 1,000 members, including CNN’s Abby Phillip.
WRITTEN BY MIMI MONTGOMERY
TWEET SHARE All photographs courtesy of The Gathering Spot.After George Zimmerman—the man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin—was acquitted in 2013, then-Georgetown law student Ryan Wilson got an email from some friends with whom he had been doing diversity and inclusion work. The subject line was simple: What are...
Reparations for Athens, GA
- April 16, 2021
- by
- Lisa Mei
April 9 2021, 7:00 a.m.
WITHIN THE BOUNDS of a block in Athens, Georgia, three high-rise dorms stand where 50 Black families used to live. The dorms were built in the 1960s as part of the federal government’s urban renewal program, which empowered cities and colleges to seize...
Biden’s Black Agenda: Lift Every Voice
- November 04, 2020
- by
- Lisa Mei
Well, it’s Election Day. I’ve casted my vote for Biden Harris. I’m not crazy about either one of them, but I DO NOT want another 4 years of Trump. I planned to post this last week, but it took me much longer to read through Biden’s Black Agenda, Lift Every Voice, than I thought it would. It was really important for me to go through line by line to understand exactly what he’s proposing for the black community. Specifically ADOS...
Why ADOS Matters
- October 19, 2020
- by
- Lisa Mei
American Descendants of Slaves (coined ADOS by founders Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore) matter because we’ve contributed significantly to the making of America. More than a century before the founding of the country we were the labor that built the tobacco and cotton industries that grew to afford America the opportunity to seize its independence from Great Britain. Fast forward a couple hundred centuries, immediately following Emancipation, and we were the bodies the prison industrial complex was created for to...
Who is Chill Moody?
- October 12, 2020
- by
- Lisa Mei
Are you like I was a few weeks ago, and asking ‘Who is Chill Moody??’ If so, hunny, let me tell you! Chill Moody is a legend in the making! Real spit! And quite literally. Chill Moody is a well respected Hip Hop artist from West Philadelphia, known for BARSSS, and his undeniable love for his city. He’s an extraordinary lyricist that can contend with the greatest of them. I’m talking Nas, Lupe, Siegal, Freeway, Budden, Black Thought. His rhymes...
Can We Be Real?
- August 25, 2020
- by
- Lisa Mei
A couple of years ago I told a friend of mine how I was becoming skeptical of what I refer to as the “Positivity Movement”. I had embarked on a personal development journey (that was the foundation of this very blog); that challenged me to dig deep within myself, cleanse my soul, and seek God in order to find my purpose. As a result, I found myself heavily entrenched in the world of Affirmations and Manifestations.
Now I don’t have a...
