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Gigi Khanyezi

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    In the Era of Ahmaud, What Does Solidarity Have to do with Jesus?!
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Nov 22, 2021
    • 4 min

    In the Era of Ahmaud, What Does Solidarity Have to do with Jesus?!

    A poof of blood dissipating into the air is all we saw. Ahmaud’s struggle against the white man and his shotgun took them outside our...
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    Moms of Black Boys - Our Daily Anguish
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • May 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    Moms of Black Boys - Our Daily Anguish

    As Mother's Day comes to a close I wanna give a shout out to all the MOTHERS OF BLACK BOYS. Who fret about what their boys wear because...
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    Community Dialogue with Jemar Tisby (With Recording)
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • May 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Community Dialogue with Jemar Tisby (With Recording)

    Twice a week I facilitate an online Book Club with the hope of coming out of this quarantine with a remnant more educated, equipped, and...
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    The Gun in My Back (I Survived Police Brutality - PART III)
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Apr 21, 2020
    • 5 min

    The Gun in My Back (I Survived Police Brutality - PART III)

    The gun was pressed into the right side of my back, just below the rib cage, and the officers hand had a tight grip on my left upper arm...
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    The Darkness of Good Friday and COVID-19
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Apr 10, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Darkness of Good Friday and COVID-19

    Today is the day when dreams died. The day that everything we had devoted ourselves to, everything we have suffered for, everything we...
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    My Face Met the Pavement - (I Survived Police Brutality - PART II)
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Apr 10, 2020
    • 4 min

    My Face Met the Pavement - (I Survived Police Brutality - PART II)

    Read Part I Here As my face was pressed against the asphault of this Soweto back road, I could feel the loose grit and gravel poking into...
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    I Survived Police Brutality - PART I
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Apr 8, 2020
    • 4 min

    I Survived Police Brutality - PART I

    I saw his door open and watched a set of large gloved hands pull him from the driver seat next to me and onto the pavement. I saw his...
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    Which Jesus Do You Follow - The Historical One or the American One?
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Mar 3, 2020
    • 3 min

    Which Jesus Do You Follow - The Historical One or the American One?

    Beloved tribe, we live in an era where divides are deepening, and that great chasm called RACE undergirds tham all. Some experts call it...
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    Deep in the Chambers Beyond Words  (What's In a Name:  PART V)
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Feb 25, 2020
    • 5 min

    Deep in the Chambers Beyond Words (What's In a Name: PART V)

    My resolve has been deep to give my boys a Zulu last name; for them to maintain a tangible, kinesthetic connection to the land of their...
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    Stealing the Sacred       (What's in a Name: Part IV)
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Feb 23, 2020
    • 3 min

    Stealing the Sacred (What's in a Name: Part IV)

    For several annoying logistical reasons, when the three of us finally entered the US we all three had different last names. At the time that
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    The Names that Held My Pieces Together (What's in a Name:  PART III)
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Feb 22, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Names that Held My Pieces Together (What's in a Name: PART III)

    It was early October, 2016, and catastrophe was brewing. I knew something was coming, but I didn’t know what, exactly. Hard to describe a...
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    Naming My Adopted Boys (What's In a Name?  PART II)
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Feb 21, 2020
    • 4 min

    Naming My Adopted Boys (What's In a Name? PART II)

    The second day he was at home with me I wondered if he would actually comprehend a conversation about his name. At 18 months old, he only...
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    What's In a Name (I'm changing mine):  PART I
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Feb 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    What's In a Name (I'm changing mine): PART I

    In most non-western, 2/3 world cultures, names are sacred. They are not chosen for the mere aesthetic of how they roll off the tongue.
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    Police Brutality - Foundations of a Christian Response (Part 2, Black America: The Hunted)
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Sep 19, 2016
    • 4 min

    Police Brutality - Foundations of a Christian Response (Part 2, Black America: The Hunted)

    **(Please read Part 1)** People are being hunted down like animals in the street and Christianity is quickly descending into irrelevance....
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    Black America:  THE HUNTED  (Part 1)
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Jul 9, 2016
    • 5 min

    Black America: THE HUNTED (Part 1)

    It seems to me the Black Community has earned a (not-so) “new” nickname in America: “THE HUNTED.” The world is watching as the the “Land...
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    Ode to June 16th:  The Blood Cries Out
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Jun 15, 2016
    • 4 min

    Ode to June 16th: The Blood Cries Out

    I was still in my mother's womb when those smoking guns went off. I was three gestational months old when school uniforms fell like...
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    'My Baby Just Died' - One Mother to Another in the O.R. Waiting Room
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Jun 11, 2016
    • 5 min

    'My Baby Just Died' - One Mother to Another in the O.R. Waiting Room

    On Tuesday, my littlest one – my foster son - had surgery at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. The notorious Baragwanath Hospital in...
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    American In Soweto:  Just Who's Saving Who Here?!
    Gigi Khanyezi
    • Jun 7, 2016
    • 3 min

    American In Soweto: Just Who's Saving Who Here?!

    I have not saved Soweto. Nope. Not even close. And I didn't come here to save Soweto, either. I am fortunate enough to have grown up in...
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