Shay 
Since the world shut down in mid-March, I had stayed home with the exception of the month I spent in Chicago with my father when he was dying and three trips I have made to the mainland for errands, including a doctor’s visit. A few days ago, I made my fourth trek to the outside …
From the moment that enslaved African women were brought to the United States until this present moment, Black women have had to endure painful stereotypes that seek to define us and to dehumanize us. As a result, for Black women, finding the space and the freedom to exist as our own fully actualized and authentic …
It has been with blinding speed that the United State has fallen from her mythical perch—as the vaunted shining democracy whose beacon light guides all freedom-loving people everywhere—to the deeply divided cesspool of ignorance, intolerance and disdain for science and our fellow humans that much more accurately represents where a good third of our citizens …