In the valley of dry bones are the bitter and defeated living dead. They are the ones who always have a scowl on their face and have nothing positive to say. They are also the ones who have given up on living a joyful life. How does one get to such a desolate place in their life? They get there in many ways. Loss is one of them, and betrayal is another. In life, you will experience losses of many types, and one of them will be so profound that it will thrust you into the valley of dry bones....

Being Black in America has never been easy, and unfortunately, I don’t see it getting easier for us as a people any time soon. I was a...

My parents, who lived in Las Vegas, would keep my son and his cousin for a few weeks in the summer. I would drive from Altadena to Vegas...