Sitemap - 2023 - Winkfield’s Substack

Best of the Year 2023

When All About Race is Negative

Opinion in Newsweek

Grief and Sorrow: Remembering Amanda Richmond Rogers

Gotterdammerung

Some Interest in My Opinion

Christmas Day

Merry Christmas

A Race Story

Values and Attitudes of the Prolific

Creative Minorities and the New Harlem Renaissance

Gotterdammerung

Book Publication Rate of Harvard Presidents

Holiday Greetings for Harvard University President Claudine Gay

C. at Starbucks

And Yet Another Way to Understand Black Psychology

Joscha Bach, Ideology and Understanding Black Culture and Consciousness

An Idea for a Documentary

Gotterdammerung

Collapse in Discourse

Moral Clarity Tonight

Can You Help A Sister Out?

A Two Podcast Day

A Delightful Saturday Morning

Toby Ziegler and a Moral Moment

When Is A Bright Kid Just A Bright Kid?

What Does Moral Competence Look Like?

The Carmen Delgado Dining Room St. Paul's School The Year 2076

Please Resign Harvard University President Claudine Gay

Gotterdammerung

Happy Birthday!

Positive Thoughts Matter

For the Love of Race (A Satire)

How One Man's Despair Brought Us Here

Growing Up in An All-Black World

Another Way to Understand Black Consciousness

Gotterdammerung

Racial Moments

Book Review of How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment

The 7 Stages of Ethnic Studies

I See Four Lights (A Short Story)

I See Four Lights (A Short Story)

I See Four Lights (A Short Story)

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Gotterdammerung

I See Four Lights (A Short Story)

I See Four Lights (A Short Story)

I See Four Lights (A Short Story)

I See Four Lights (A Short Story)

Gotterdammerung and Copyright

An Open Letter to Beloved Cousin

My Smart Mom Meets a Southern Mengele

Gotterdammerung

Reparations No. 30

"May Their Memory Be A Blessing"

"Run, Forrest, Run!"

Bedtime Story

The Wise Elder

I Am An American Writer

Gotterdammerung

The Duty to Write

That I May Kill Him

The Silence of Anti-Semitism and the Voice of George Washington

A Black Man Founds A White Family

She's Jewish. And I Want to Say the Right Thing.

The Racial Dynamics of Passing Away

Gotterdammerung

Where Do You Find Purpose and Meaning in Your Life?

Black Culture

My Day

The Case for Relationship Excellence

"Where Will He Go Next?"

The Light Shines in the Darkness

Solidarity as Blackness

The Mission

The Lingering Effects of Antisemitism

The Future Beyond the Darkness is Bright

One Group Oppressing Another Group

Black History v. Ethnic Studies

California Ethnic Studies aka Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Rethinking College Applications

What Is True Is Not Popular

Time for a Laugh

Exhale (Shoop, Shoop)

Saturday Morning

The Unstable Category of Race

Izabella and the Afterword

On the Road to San Diego (From the Year 2018)

The Declaration of Transracial Independence -- 2063

Does Poverty Create Crime?

Notes from the Color Line

The Creative Life

Homeless in New Haven

The Leading Light of Jean Toomer

The Generation Z Renaissance

A Day In My Life

The Girl from Ipanema

48 Ways Racial Life Is Better (Compared to 1959)

The Adam Grant Way of Understanding Skin Color

My Dad is Dying

The Surprising Race Move of President Wilson

Oh Harvard

No Caricatures and Stereotypes Allowed

The Wild, Wild South

Sunday Morning

Black Enterprise Magazine, Or, How I Became Black

Retirement from Blackness

Random Thoughts

Welcome to the United States

Back in the U.S. of A.

"How Is Your Dinner, Family?"

And the Award Goes to ... President Woodrow Wilson

Rosebud

Lost to the Shadows of Time

The Souls of Black Folk

Of Cannibals and Slaves

First Contact

What is Blackness?

The Pink Cadillac

Slaves Leveraged Skills for Personal Gain

Black Flight

The Story We Tell Ourselves

On the Road with Erec Smith

Reparations and American Slavery No. 29

To Be Affirmed At J. C. Penney

A Day in My Racial Life

Reparations and American Slavery No. 28

The Book Club and Eisenhower

Happy Birthday

We Are In A Moment of Great Peril and Crisis

The Black Savior

Why White Playwrights Must Write About Black Characters

Remember Us No. 5

Remember Us No. 4

Remember Us No. 3

Remember Us No. 2

Remember Us No. 1

Remember Us

The Original White Savior

Poor Men South of Richmond

The Courage to Write (From 2018)

Not Black Enough (From the Year 2019)

I Demand His Race! I Demand It!! (From the Year 2018)

Does Our Slave Past Define Our Free Future?

The Case for a Trans Racial Consciousness

The Mom in the Yellow Dress

I Do Not Trust Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Skin Color Tells Us Nothing

Is White Supremacy A Thing Today? (From the Year 2018)

A Life-Day By George Boyer Vashon

I'm Listening to Jesse Lee Peterson

Reparations and American Slavery No. 27

Reparations and American Slavery No. 26

The AI Woke Activist

I Can't Get a Job Because I'm Black

The Best President on Race

Reparations and American Slavery No. 25

Reparations and American Slavery No. 24

Reparations and American Slavery No. 23

Reparations and American Slavery No. 22

Reparations and American Slavery No. 21

Reparations and American Slavery No. 20

Reparations and American Slavery No. 19

Reparations and American Slavery No. 18

Reparations and American Slavery No. 17

Reparations and American Slavery No. 16

Reparations and American Slavery No. 15

Reparations and American Slavery No. 14

Reparations and American Slavery No. 13

Reparations and American Slavery No. 12

Reparations and American Slavery No. 11

Reparations and American Slavery No. 10

Reparations and American Slavery No. 9

Reparations and American Slavery No. 8

Reparations and American Slavery No. 7

Reparations for American Slavery No. 6

Reparations for American Slavery No. 5

Reparations for American Slavery No. 4

Reparations for American Slavery No. 3

Reparations for American Slavery No. 2

Reparations for American Slavery No. 1

The Examined Life

Massive Resistance 2.0

Sweet Caroline

Against All Odds: The Story of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

Somewhere In the Night

I Need People Who Look Like Me

I Know Someone Who Identifies As a Tree

Why Do Some Lack Self-Awareness?

Copernicus, Galileo and Dogma

Happy Birthday Congressman Rainey!

Summer Reading List

Am I A Puritan?

Beyond Affirmative Action

Father's Day

Why Labels Matter

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your World

The Power to Create A Bigot in Kindergarten

Where Is Your Faith?

The Bias of GPT-4 Chat

Reparations for American Slavery

Distant Cousin's View of the World

Huguenot High School (Part II)

Huguenot High School

The Birth of an Essay Idea

The Abundance of Genetic Genealogy (Part II)

The Abundance of Genetic Genealogy

Being on the Spectrum

Never To Be Seen Again

Is There Life After High School?

The Decline of an American Family

A Short Respite

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 40 -- Shakespeare Speaks

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 39 -- The Ballad of Berry Gordy

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 38 -- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 37 -- An American Dilemma

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 36 -- No More Rocks

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 35 -- The Mask

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 34 -- Profanity

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 33 -- The Office

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 32 -- Mom As A Novelist

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 31 --The Moral Crisis of Our Time

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 30 -- Rockefeller

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 29 -- I'll Be Somebody Yet

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 28 -- Old Money and the Rise of a Family

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 27 -- Intervention

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 26 -- Rapid Onset

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 25 -- The Black Table

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 24 -- Birthright

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 23 -- Tenure

Don't Tell A Soul

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 21 -- On Becoming A Transracial

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 20 -- Causation

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 19 -- A Gold Mine in Green

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 18 -- Our American Cousin

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 17 -- Loss of a Calling

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 16 -- Blackness Is Oppression. Nothing Else Matters

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 15 -- Love Beyond the Circuit

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 14 -- No One Has to Know

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 13 -- A Gathering of Uncles

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 12 -- A Death Story (African American Version)

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 11 -- A Death Story

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 10 -- Sharlene's Search for Meaning

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 9 -- Dogma and Dissent

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 8 -- Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner?

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 7 -- Have You Ever Read Shakespeare?

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 6 -- Cousin Kathy

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 5 -- A Long Summer's Night

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 4 -- The Flirt

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 3 -- He Has Another Family

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 2 -- The Old Man

The Shakespeare Challenge No. 1 -- The Elephant in the Room

The Shakespeare Challenge

What Are the Possible Futures of Black Culture and Consciousness?

In Memory of Jen's Dad: Building a Beautiful City

All Good Things Around Us

Life Could Be Different: Freedom, Oppression and Star Trek (Original Series)

Harvard Can Have My Race Card

Mortality and the Manuscript

One Small Step for the Morgans (A Play)

The Manuscript and the Times We Live in

The Manuscript and Freedom

Beyond the Year 2050: The Coming of a Better Time

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