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Growing Up Ugly: Memoirs of a Black Boy Daydreaming

Growing Up Ugly: Memoirs of a Black Boy Daydreaming

Growing Up Ugly is a coming-of-age tale of an injured Black boy who learned to defy gravity and low expectations through his own creative superpowers.

2020

James Haywood Rolling Jr.

James Haywood Rolling Jr.

Stories

WICKED, Part 1

My wife and I saw WICKED, Part 1 this Thanksgiving weekend and it got me thinking. This film will win awards — it’s a soaring work of art…

Dec 7, 2024

WICKED, Part 1

Dec 7, 2024

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On the Cusp of Electing Kamala Harris for President

You didn’t think it would be easy, did you? If something has never happened before, it’s typically because it has proven hard to achieve…

Oct 29, 2024

On the Cusp of Electing Kamala Harris for President

Oct 29, 2024

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Amplifying Black Voices

I’m beginning the Fall semester of 2024 in a new role. I was appointed a few months ago to a two-year term as interim chair of the…

Sep 12, 2024

Amplifying Black Voices

Sep 12, 2024

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Margin-writing

Being marginalized as an African American in the United States has always been somewhat to my advantage. I’ve never seen much point in…

Jun 29, 2024

Margin-writing

Jun 29, 2024

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Fast Forward

Today, I am an educator, a tenured full professor at a major university. Teaching is really a giving profession. To do it really well is…

Jun 24, 2024

Fast Forward

Jun 24, 2024

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Cowboy Carter: A New Self-Portrait, by Beyoncé

Beyoncé dropped a new album today and it once again proves she knows something that most artists know and not enough of the world has…

Mar 29, 2024

Cowboy Carter: A New Self-Portrait, by Beyoncé

Mar 29, 2024

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Moons, and Junes, and Ferris Wheels

Computer generated artwork created by my father, Jim Rolling

Feb 18, 2024

Moons, and Junes, and Ferris Wheels

Feb 18, 2024

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Making Sacred Spaces

Since today is my 60th birthday, I began the morning by reflecting back on things I have done and left undone. We don’t get to have many of…

Dec 28, 2023

Making Sacred Spaces

Dec 28, 2023

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Thickening Our Faith

One of the reasons I established Simple Word Publications was because of my impulse to, from time to time, publish short pieces of writing…

Dec 18, 2023

Thickening Our Faith

Dec 18, 2023

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Remembering Ma: A Mother’s Love, Life, and Eulogy

Ma in her youth, a couple of years after bearing her fourth child.

Dec 1, 2023

Remembering Ma: A Mother’s Love, Life, and Eulogy

Dec 1, 2023

James Haywood Rolling Jr

James Haywood Rolling Jr

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Creativity Educator | Artist | Antiracist | Counter-narrative Crusader | Rebel with a Cause | Author, “Growing Up Ugly” available @ https://tinyurl.com/4zs6de28

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