I am a Harlem, N.Y., native who was also raised in Silver Spring and Mitchellville, Md. I have 11 years of experience as a print journalist; seven of which were spent covering religion in the Carolinas and Tennessee. Spent the past four years as a Web producer for newspaper and television Web sites in Nashville and the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. Have served as a freelance moderator in Beliefnet’s religious and spiritual social networking community.
In 2009, I became an overnight homepage producer at The Washington Post where I continue to work. My blog comments are entirely personal and do not represent the views of the Washington Post or Washington Post Company affiliates.
Volunteerism has centered on disaster relief/crisis communication, literacy and AIDS awareness/prevention and ecumenical/interfaith efforts.
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Came out of a ca-coon of intense research and blogging, a kind of coma if one considers isolation of self with hundreds of years of history and relatives a comatose state…and was extremely happy to find you still here on the web and pounding away also with the words. Years ago I found you on luck, these days I turn to you and some others with serious desire to learn not only about our world but about how we navigate it with ambition and determination.
–Lara Lynn Lane, Farfield, CT
J. Hunt! I am so proud of you and your accomplishments most of all the personal and professional insight you have offered us who are always seeking knowledge and truth. You are an outstanding journalist and we are fortunate to share your food for thoughts. Please continue to be true to yourself so that you can always be true to those of us who follow your work.
This is wonderful J-9. I am glad that you continue to inspire, educate, and words for wisdom. I have and always reading your work. Take care and may you continue to allow your words to change the world.
I miss you.
We need a retreat-Bell’s???
Jeannine! Thanks for reading my blog and leaving the comment. I’ve looked through your blog as well and really enjoyed reading it. I especially enjoyed the latest entry on the metaphors of flying. My interest in piqued so now I’ll need to go read some of those folk stories. As you might imagine, being a white man from the rolling hills of southern Indiana, I’ve not read much African, American folk writing but I plan to start!
I hope you’ve had a great weekend.
Words are definitely bullets and you seem to have the accuracy to handle the terain. I am very proud of you. Keep doing your thing!!
Greetings…..
I have new name for you! “J. Hunt”
Girlfriend….you are BAD!
May you continue to use words as ammunition! Blast away the madness as you fight to guide readers into the light of intellectual enlightenment. Free us from the darkness of misinformation. Keep it as real as the North Star that guided slaves to freedom in far away places where new words of freedom awaited.
Whoever said words are not bullets was wrong!
“J. Hunt”…..stay armed!
Peace and Blessings to you and yours!
I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mommy