Torrence(Tor) Brown-Smith“You too have to be trustworthy” A reflection.…[A]ll white people are enemies until proved otherwise, and this applies to black intellectuals, all of us are enemies of the people until…6 min read·Apr 16, 2024--18--18
Torrence(Tor) Brown-SmithThe Darkest Night: A Reflection of 7/20/12My back tattoo I got after the mass shooting. My mom and I both have this as a matching tattoo7 min read·Jul 20, 2023----
Torrence(Tor) Brown-SmithWhy We All Need Teachers Willing to be Accomplices in our EnlightenmentIn March of 2022, Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, signed into law the Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (WOKE) Act. His goal was to…6 min read·Feb 10, 2023--11--11
Torrence(Tor) Brown-SmithJournal Entry 1: Blackness & The Shadow That Comes With It.Writing about despair and death has always come natural to me. I’m not sure why, but if I had to consider it, I’d have to examine my youth…7 min read·Nov 8, 2022----
Torrence(Tor) Brown-SmithWe Were All Girl Dads’ a Week AgoWhen I learned the helicopter that collided into a Calabasas hillside on a foggy January morning in 2020 carried Kobe, my face went numb. I…8 min read·Jul 10, 2022----
Torrence(Tor) Brown-SmithAre You Black or Are You Black-Black?“You can’t be pro-Black if your partner ain’t Black!”9 min read·Feb 27, 2022----
Torrence(Tor) Brown-SmithReclaiming of a King“ — 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles…6 min read·Jan 17, 2022----
Torrence(Tor) Brown-SmithFor the Son’s of bell hooks.“…the black mothers in each of us — whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.” — Audre Lorde4 min read·Dec 23, 2021--1--1
Torrence(Tor) Brown-SmithPart 1: Do Snowmen Have Butts?“I know this isn’t the Christmas you imagined,” Carlos’s dad expressed, as they walked towards the front door of his uncle and aunts…8 min read·Dec 16, 2021----
Torrence(Tor) Brown-SmithHow Old is 17, Really?I was 17-years-old when my grandfather called me concerned. “I thought this boy was you on the TV,” he said to me, relieved. “What boy?” I…3 min read·Nov 19, 2021----