Yet someway, somehow it touches us all. How would we define such as thing? The essence of black love is powerful, deep. It is that understanding that you almost can’t explain. The black experience alone, from of course slavery, to racism, poverty, and the fight against it all, encompasses that love. That love for our […]
I remember typing the words into HU Twitter like a fervent prayer. “Since we are manifesting, I need a queer Black friend group in DC.” For much of my life, I had gone without a sense of community. Yes, I had grown up with a host of Black friends in school or in the Saturday
The United States of America is on the precipice of seeing another first in the anticipated retirement announcement of Washington, D.C. Justice Stephen Breyer from his seat as one of the nine justices on the Supreme Court. This announcement set off the usual frenzied speculation about who will be “the pick,” just like it did
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Sunday morning Corn muffins, sausage, scrambled eggs All to be consumed before Mass at 11:30 am And we better not be late Or else God is going to have another angel \”Can Kachi come outside and play today?\” You cross your arms and tilt your head Mhm. You better be in the house before
You came into Ms. Ramsey\’s math class A chestnut face full of braces and vibrant colored beads in neat braids you probably sat between your mother\’s legs the night before anxious about your first day of school Since your first day was everyone else\’s 68th I did not understand why I stuttered when I spoke
You came into Ms. Ramsey\’s math class A chestnut face full of braces and vibrant colored beads in neat braids you probably sat between your mother\’s legs the night before anxious about your first day of school Since your first day was everyone else\’s 68th I did not understand why I stuttered when I spoke
You came into Ms. Ramsey\’s math class A chestnut face full of braces and vibrant colored beads in neat braids you probably sat between your mother\’s legs the night before anxious about your first day of school Since your first day was everyone else\’s 68th I did not understand why I stuttered when I spoke
You came into Ms. Ramsey\’s math class A chestnut face full of braces and vibrant colored beads in neat braids you probably sat between your mother\’s legs the night before anxious about your first day of school Since your first day was everyone else\’s 68th I did not understand why I stuttered when I spoke
You came into Ms. Ramsey\’s math class A chestnut face full of braces and vibrant colored beads in neat braids you probably sat between your mother\’s legs the night before anxious about your first day of school Since your first day was everyone else\’s 68th I did not understand why I stuttered when I spoke
I’m here, waiting to be recovered, waiting to be restored. You were taken from the dark continent, betrayed, transported and enslaved, and shamed. Men disgraced, women demeaned, children disregarded. And in the process, I am diminished. I am Black Love, waiting to be recovered, waiting to be restored. I’m here, waiting to be recovered, waiting
