Author: J. Coleman Merritt

Stucco and Paint!

March 8, 2021

What a difficult, distressing year it has been since March 2020. So many crises to face; so much sickness, so much alone-ness, so much death….

Amazing Grace

February 18, 2021

Amazing Grace… In the last few days, I have heard Amazing Grace sung 3 times. First, by Nurse Lori Marie Key at the Memorial Service…

IMANI…

January 11, 2021

Faith – IMANI – is the last of the NGUZO SABA – THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES we celebrate during KWANZAA, which ended last Friday, Jan.1st. Its…

First Gen: Jamericubana

December 29, 2020

People like me are the children of immigrants, typically, of African descent, yet representative of the multiethnic, multicultural Caribbean peoples whose ancestors have been on…