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Lora-Ellen McKinney

Lora-Ellen McKinney is an award-winning author whose best-known works detail African American faith and practice and Baptist tenets.

Lora-Ellen is a multi-platform storyteller.

Whether reciting poetry at virtual slams, crafting and performing original songs and plays, offering spiritual reflections like those shared here, dancing or telling stories from her remarkable life, her stories bring light and life to unexpected corners of our shared human experience.

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Beer Today, Gone Tomorrow

We now we know that the tape made by Ms. Whalen, the passerby who called 911 to report to the Cambridge police a possible break-in at Professor Gates' home never once mentioned the race of the men until asked.

WritingsLora-Ellen McKinneyJuly 29, 2009911, Cambridge, Civil Rights, Lucia Whalen, President Obama, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Reggie Lewis, Sergeant James Crowley, beer, death threats, press conferenceComment

Stuck on “Stupid”?: The Gates to Post-Racial America

Given the national discussion, talk-show tumult, and arm-chair refereeing we have been embroiled in as a result of the July 16, 2009 arrest of Professor Gates in his Cambridge home, America has learned, much to its dismay, that the garden gate is stuck wide open in non-post-racial America.

WritingsLora-Ellen McKinneyJuly 25, 2009African American, America, Cambridge, Harvard, Obama, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Rev. Wright, Sergeant James Crowley, Supreme Court, arrest, black, driving while black, race Comment

Lora-Ellen is a multi-platform storyteller.

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