Kamille D. Whittaker
Full Bloom: On the kinship and legacy of a literary union
Alice Walker and the late Valerie Boyd illustrated by Hsiao-Ron Cheng for Atlanta Magazine; words by Anjali Enjeti
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Kamille D. Whittaker
Aug 17, 20201 min read
[Podcast] Writing Home: American Voices From The Caribbean
Small Axe editorial committee member Tami Navarro and archipelagos editor Kaiama L. Glover co-host Writing Home, a weekly podcast about...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jul 28, 20201 min read
Lessons From Plants
"I cut it back ... maybe too much ... but it will grow back. And if it doesn't... I'll just plant another." -- Mom on her avocado/pear...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jun 13, 20201 min read
Excerpt: "A Little Patch of Something"
By Imani Perry Excerpted from The Paris Review I’m growing microgreens. Every couple of weeks they are sufficiently lush to be snipped...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jun 13, 20201 min read
Duets: Stevie Wonder + Brian McKnight
In 2010, on 94.7 The Wave in Los Angeles, Stevie Wonder and Brian McKnight had a jam session where they performed several of Stevland's...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 13, 20201 min read
Spring Reading: "The Yellow House" by Sarah M. Broom
#JumpAtTheSuns #Memoir #NarrativeNonfiction #NewOrleans
Kamille D. Whittaker
Mar 31, 20200 min read
Kamille D. Whittaker
Dec 29, 20191 min read
Recipe + Ritual: Haitian Soup Joumou
Soup Joumou, also known as the Haitian Independence Soup, is a hearty pumpkin (or squash) soup that is traditionally served on January 1...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Dec 17, 20191 min read
The Ways We Mother
#JumpAtTheSuns #Mothering
Kamille D. Whittaker
Dec 1, 20190 min read
Kamille D. Whittaker
Nov 21, 20191 min read
Lucille Clifton Reads: "Won't You Celebrate With Me?"
[Lucille begins at the :26 mark] won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Sep 6, 20191 min read
Before.
The first text I dashed off to my mom and brother right before I walked in to the Goombay Festival for Junkanoo was "I am Bahamian now."...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Aug 7, 20195 min read
Toni Morrison's Eulogy for James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; Life in His Language
Jimmy, there is too much to think about you, and too much to feel. The difficulty is your life refuses summation - it always did - and...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jun 23, 20190 min read
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jun 6, 20193 min read
Reading Toni Morrison’s 1973 Summer Essay “Cooking Out”
Forty-six years ago, Toni Morrison wrote an essay about cooking out for the 1973 Summer Reading issue. By TONI MORRISON Uncle Green was...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 1, 20191 min read
Harriet Tubman and the Maroon Tradition
Iyelli Ichile and Jared Ball discuss Harriet Tubman's (née Araminta "Minty" Ross) place in the Maroon/Marronage tradition.
Kamille D. Whittaker
Feb 20, 20191 min read
From Audre Lorde's "A Litany for Survival No. 42"
For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot...
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Kamille D. Whittaker
Dec 31, 20182 min read
[Excerpt] Pole:"It took me 10 years to learn how to write about my father, about his life and death"
My thoughts: I was once on the receiving end of this term when my Grandmother passed. After being taught its meaning, it created a space...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Nov 27, 20182 min read
Excerpt: The Sanctum of a Bloom
By Rosalind Bentley for Southern Foodways Alliance A couple of years ago, my mother and I were making our way through the Whole Foods...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Nov 26, 20181 min read
Cassava From My Mother's Garden: "Our ancestors had to tap into the rhythm of the plants …"
I am always intrigued by mom's growing of Cassava, knowing what I know about the rules surrounding its harvest and consumption. Every...
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