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 …
Kamala Harris is biracial. Her mother is Indian and her father is Jamaican, but in this country, that means she’s Black. There is a lot expected of Black women in this country that is not expected of anyone else, and all of these things are expected of Kamala Harris. She is expected to like certain …
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 …