I recently bought a stained-glass cutting board from Moss and Mustard. Not because I needed a new cutting board, but because I was intrigued by seeing a Black woman reflected in stained glass. A Black woman with hair like mine and facial features that resembled mine. It reminded […]
I read the names on my shirt once more before heading to my polling station. Hannah, Elizabeth, Eliza. Nettie, Belle. I was not stepping into the election booth alone. I was taking the spirit of women in my family who were enslaved in America, women who probably never […]
We stand on the precipice of a new dawn. We find ourselves here together, though some would prefer it otherwise, but that is the nature of America- out of many, one… We do not get to choose the many; life has selected us all for this moment, so […]
Common sense sometimes just ain’t common. When my siblings and I were kids, and we did something stupid, my dad would tell us, “When God was handing out common sense, you were outside begging for a bag of rocks.” That is how I felt watching my people talk […]
Sometimes life will force an unexpected pause. It happened to me the day I returned from Barcelona and tested positive for Covid. I was forced to pause and do nothing for the first time in years. For some reason, I didn’t run from the pause; I embraced the […]
I had some thoughts about last night’s 2022 election, particularly Georgia. So many people have asked, “How could Stacey Abrams lose the Gubernatorial race in Georgia?” Let me explain to you how. Below is the, One Night In Miami scene I referenced in my video. And please note […]
I do think many people, including myself, had hope for Kanye. We wanted ‘College Dropout,’ ‘George Bush doesn’t care about Black people, ‘ Kanye. We wanted, ‘My mama was raised in the era whenClean water was only served to the fairer skinDoin’ clothes, you woulda thought I had […]
We have been to war in this city, and everyone looks the other way. Where are the free mental health services for a community you sent into war? Every day it is a challenge to find any peace. We exist between two crosses -fight and flight. Years later, many of us are just going through the motions. Silently fighting a war inside. Trying to recover from the storm of one lie.
Recently a clip from a Father’s Day sermon titled Real Men Pour In by megachurch pastor TD Jakes has caught backlash on social media. In his sermon, TD Jakes advice to women is to be careful pouring too much into men because men are designed to pour into […]
Today marks the celebration that the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, announcing the colonies’ separation from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Today, I ask you, what to the Black Woman is the 4th of July? The 4th of July is a day celebrating a […]
