If we weren’t faced with the calamity of COVID-19, the idea of white allyship that has catapulted over the past few months would not have occurred. I’m sure of this. While I can’t be certain that being house-ridden is contributing evidence that more people are spending time with their moral…

I took a seat next to some elders. We were all eager to listen to the words of Mother Morrison tonight. Not long after sitting down, I struck a conversation with an older, black woman sitting in the row behind me. It started in that sort of motherly way, where…

On the night of Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018 a few friends and I headed to Parkview Tavern, located on N Carrollton Ave, in New Orleans, Louisiana, for late-night drinks following a poetry reading that took place after class. The three of us are graduate students in the University of New…

You woke up this morning and thought to yourself, “Today is going to be a good day.” You thought, “I could make it through today” very intently because you know what it feels like to wake up not wanting to leave your bed. Today doesn’t feel like that, though; it…

for Stanley Kinard My office, which happens to be at HarperCollins Publishers, where I am interning, closed early today. Needless to say, I had a bit more idle time than usual, so I decided to reach out to one of the many mentors I had in high school. Disclaimer: This…