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The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre Of 1921

The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre Of 1921

My great-grandmother, Mary Jones Parrish, chronicled the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. In 2021, I contributed to the 100th anniversary republication.

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Black Blood, No. 3: In the Spirit of Mary Elizabeth Jones Parrish

Brooklyn-based artist Ajamu Kojo’s Black Wall Street: A Case for Reparations was exhibited last year at Montclair State University…

8 min readMay 22, 2023

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Black Blood, No. 3: In the Spirit of Mary Elizabeth Jones Parrish

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January 6, 2021 Marked the Christian Epiphany, but U.S.

The date became a notorious reminder to continually defend democracy

3 min readJan 6, 2024

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January 6, 2021 Marked the Christian Epiphany, but U.S.

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As a Lymphedema Patient, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Gives Me Hope

Dr. Dhruv Singhal asked me what I wanted. To preserve my leg health long enough to be eligible for any groundbreaking curative therapy. I…

7 min readDec 16, 2023

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As a Lymphedema Patient, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Gives Me Hope

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I identify completely.

1 min readJul 10, 2022

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The Death of Judgment

A Family Grapples with Its Tragic History

7 min readAug 25, 2021

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The Death of Judgment

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My grandmother survived the Tulsa massacre.

It was eerily fitting that the weekend before a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, I sat down to reread the book…

8 min readJan 11, 2021

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Shocked by how close the presidential race is? Black Americans have known this bigotry all along.

As a Black woman in America, I’ve been watching the neck-and-neck presidential election race like everyone else. I’ve also been reading…

4 min readJan 11, 2021

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Manual Lymphatic Drainage Massage: Trendiness Can Harm Lymphedema Patients

On this World Lymphedema Day, the culmination of Lymphedema Awareness Week, I invoke the same question I asked a year ago, and will no…

4 min readMar 7, 2020

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Manual Lymphatic Drainage Massage: Trendiness Can Harm Lymphedema Patients

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How a Gaslighter Outsmarts the Court

“The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women and children from the superior…

7 min readSep 30, 2019

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How a Gaslighter Outsmarts the Court

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World Lymphedema Day: What Am I Gonna Do About My Legs?

A series of comedy sketches on Chappelle’s Show in the early 2000s featured the inimitable Dave Chappelle portraying celebrities about…

5 min readMar 6, 2019

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World Lymphedema Day: What Am I Gonna Do About My Legs?

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Anneliese Bruner

Anneliese Bruner

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Essayist, author, & Tulsa Massacre descendant working to advance the legacy of Mary E. Jones Parrish--my great grandmother--author of The Nation Must Awake.

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