The Decade of Reparations Must Be a Decade of Healing Science
— A FOUR-PART SERIES — The Return Series On cultural memory, healing, and what comes after recognition Part Four The Decade of Reparations Must Be a Decade of Healing Science What Comes After Recognition Recognition has arrived. Now comes the harder work. I want to talk to you about what comes after recognition — please […]
Two Wounds. One Crime
— A FOUR-PART SERIES — The Return Series On cultural memory, healing, and what comes after recognition Part Three Two Wounds. One Crime. The Bifurcated Wound — the thesis my novel wouldn’t let me abandon There is a conversation that does not yet have the language it needs. It is the conversation between the African […]
The Missing Determinant
— A FOUR-PART SERIES — The Return Series On cultural memory, healing, and what comes after recognition Part Two The Missing Determinant. Why Cultural Memory Is Health We have spent decades building sophisticated models of what makes people sick and what makes them well. We have mapped the social determinants of health. We have catalogued […]
The World Just Caught Up. Here’s What Comes Next
— A FOUR-PART SERIES — The Return Series On cultural memory, healing, and what comes after recognition Part One The World Just Caught Up. Here’s What Comes Next. What the UN Resolution Really Means On March 25, 2026, 123 nations stood before the United Nations and voted to declare the transatlantic slave trade the gravest […]