Tag: Laughter

  • A Black Guy and an Indigenous Guy Talk About Thanksgiving

    A Black Guy and an Indigenous Guy Talk About Thanksgiving

    If you are like me and my guest, Chickasaw Comedian Blake Pickens, your childhood education around the first Thanksgiving holiday was filled with stories of pilgrims, buckle hats, and happy Indigenous folks. This happened two years after my folks came to America for our “internships”. Since learning about the histories of our peoples, I have…

  • If We Can Laugh Together, Maybe We Can Last Together

    If We Can Laugh Together, Maybe We Can Last Together

    I need a reasonably decent sense of humor to do the work I do, bringing people together across differences and helping people discover their capacities to affect positive transformation in their communities. I have to see the comedy in everything even if not all of it can be turned into a joke. That is because,…