by Monica A. Coleman | Jun 28, 2024 | Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
This year this month marks 30 years since I accepted a call into ministry. I did not grow up thinking that “minister” was a career option. When and where I was raised, if you were a boy who liked church, people would say that you might be a minister one...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jan 20, 2024 | Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
When Dr. Claudine Gay resigned from the presidency of Harvard University, my phone lit up with phone call and texts. The callers and texters included Black women academics, Black professional women, Black male academics, and the like. Reeling with emotion from...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jun 20, 2023 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I have a friend who asks me every year about what I’m doing for Black History Month. And I always reply: “Nothing, I’m Black every day.” And I mean it. I don’t celebrate Black History Month, but I am happy to be a part of celebrations of Black history – when they...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 20, 2022 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
How does it feel to be a problem? W. E. B. DuBois posed this question in the essay “Our Spiritual Strivings” in The Souls of Black Folk. DuBois was referring to the ways in which African Americans were understood by white American society in the early twentieth...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
July is BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month. In 2008, mental health communities began recognizing July as Bebe Moore Campbell Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Campbell was an African American novelist and a fierce advocate for mental health awareness and...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jul 2, 2020 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
Choosing favorite books in one’s field is like asking who your favorite friends are. Good books change my perspective and – at times – transform my soul. Still, I’ve put together a short list of books I like to teach over and over again. Sisters in the Wilderness by...