I thought I heard mom call out my name. I stopped to listen intently. But I didn’t hear anything except her hasty footsteps. So I turned on the music again, grabbed my tools, and continued to fix the faucet in the laundry room. Not long afterward, within seconds actually, I heard “Sammy” again. Mom’s voice…
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What if Africa wasn’t colonized by Europeans? What if Europeans didn’t have access to exploit Africa’s resources and people? Would Africa be prosperous, peaceful, powerful like Wakanda? What-if questions have always been an integral part of comic book lore. In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created the archetype for superheroes when they asked, “what…
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I took a trip to Wakanda on Sunday night, and along the way, I stumbled into Ghana. Black Panther is the 18th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—and in this universe, all roads lead to Wakanda. In Wakanda, Marvel has its own Gotham City. Except, in this case, the superhero’s fictional home has a secret…
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A student recorded the scene inside his classroom on Snapchat as Nikolas Cruz shot at students just meters away in a hallway at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. The video is only 17 seconds long, but I counted at least 17 gunshots from Nikolas Cruz’s semi-automatic weapon. The students in the classroom looked…
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The Christmas story isn’t about a baby in a manger. It isn’t about a virgin mother. It isn’t even about prophecies about a messiah. The Christmas story is about how God became a man. It’s about why Jesus became like us. It’s about how you and I could become like God. The Christmas story is…
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My parents come from a region in Ghana with white castles and white names that do not belong. My mother was born and raised in Anomabo and lived near Fort William, one of seventeen slave castles in the region. My father, however, is from a nearby town called Yamoransa, where I recieved my last name…
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I saw my father for the first time when I was nineteen. He was also nineteen at the time. I didn’t stare at him for long. I moved my eyes away from him after a few seconds. I had seen all I wanted to see. So I gave the picture of my father back to…
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The stage lighting uncovered her face as she strained for a faint smile. She was alone before the large crowd. We stared up at her; she stared at the ground. She mumbled that she had fallen in love with a boy. They were not unlike many teenage couples. They first met at a youth group….
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500 years ago today, Martin Luther hammered the Catholic Church when he nailed The 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Germany—igniting the Reformation. The 95 Theses was Martin Luther’s pastoral reaction to the Catholic Church’s indulgence preachers, who sold certificates promising buyers or their loved ones reduced suffering in purgatory. In other…
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He was looking at his sleeping children, gone to bed hungry again, when he decided to rob the king. The next morning, he ambushed a wagon carrying food and treasure to the king, and killed the wagoners. Witnesses, however, delivered the news to the king, leading to the man’s arrest. When it was time for…
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