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The Sunday Salon is a reflective weekly essay series by Loni Webb, created for readers who still believe words can call us back to our humanity.


"You Don't Have to Do the Right Thing."
Governor Greg Abbot of Texas just sent another busload of (migrants) people (I refuse to call them migrants since they are people)
Yolanda Webb
4 min read


"So, What Does Inclusion Really 'Look' Like?"
I was asked this question at a backyard barbecue I attended this weekend. He was serious he said, because he wanted to understand. Could I
Yolanda Webb
4 min read


Ma...Ma...Ma!
It has taken me days to process the events in Memphis, Tennessee.
Yolanda Webb
3 min read


Ageism...Until it Happens to You
Let's face it... we all get old. There is no ticket out of aging. There's no influencing that can keep us young. Youthfulness has been cele
Sascha Butler
3 min read


Lessons in the Making
I just have no desire to repeat it. And when we refuse to look back at what our humanity has caused...we are destined to repeat it.
Yolanda Webb
3 min read


Letting go of my Ego
In an instant, on that call, I realized that my ego was doing exactly what it always does…
Yolanda Webb
4 min read


Care of Our Souls
I spent this weekend in near silence. One thing I did not want to do was talk about the events surrounding the electoral college vote.
Yolanda Webb
3 min read


“We Cannot Walk Alone”
This New Year is significant considering the year we are leaving behind us. As the clock moved from 11:59 to midnight to mark the New Year,
Yolanda Webb
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Another Turn Around the Sun
As we close the book on the Christmas of 2020, will we have stories to tell!
Yolanda Webb
3 min read


Culture Shift
A culture shift? A culture shift that we are enduring in the middle of a culture shock.
Yolanda Webb
3 min read


Sharing All of Our Tomorrow’s
For all that is going wrong, it took a group of nine-year old kids, to remind me that no amount of fear, anger, hate, injustice, or racism,
Yolanda Webb
3 min read


I See You
I listened to an argument yesterday between two friends. My two friends are completely and exactly the opposite from each other. One...
Yolanda Webb
2 min read


On A Wing and a Prayer
I had gotten to the place where Fannie Lou Hammer once described as being sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Yolanda Webb
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The Impossbility of Good Trouble
I cranked up the music in my car with Teena Marie belting out Square Biz and found myself loudly singing the chorus.
Yolanda Webb
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Rising Above the Noise
It seems as if this past week has been the longest one in an awfully long time. In a year filled with long weeks for one reason or another,
Yolanda Webb
2 min read


Race Forward
I do not know about you, but I just do not see or feel anything normal about this. It feels as if I have entered the Twilight Zone.
Yolanda Webb
3 min read


In Service to a Nation
Culture crisis. I overheard that term the other day, standing in a check out line.
Yolanda Webb
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Tell Them God Is A Black Woman
So, what does ‘resilience’ really mean? Have we so watered down the word that it no longer has any value?
Yolanda Webb
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"Let Not Your Labor Be In Vain"
Today, our jobs as public human services, non-profit and governmental workers is to protect the generations that come after us from hate.
Yolanda Webb
2 min read
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