Author: Carolivia Herron

How Mary Lumpkin Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail

Kristen Green & Carolivia Herron

Thank you, my dear Great Great Grandmother Mary Lumpkin. You are Miriam for us, dancing with the timbrel, I hear you from the freedom side of the sea.

Tisha B’av: A Fable from Carolivia Herron

Carolivia Herron

In this fable, Carolivia Herron reckons with ancestral grief–and how conflict is carried on to new generations.

Hidden Religious Identity in Honor of Purim

Carolivia Herron

There is one more part to come. It is her story celebrating African American culture, Judaism, epic literature and academia.