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The MoreLoves: Baba Builds a Sun Oven

The MoreLoves: Baba Builds a Sun Oven

When Mama's dehydrator breaks, she shares with Baba her dream to build a sun oven in the backyard together as a family.

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The Day my Daughter Learned about Skin Color

It happened on the playground. A play date turned into a lesson about skin color for my daughter, Aziza. Aziza’s play date was Sophia. They…

4 min readMar 17, 2024

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Doing Business While Black

According to Boyce Watkins, founder of the Black Business School, 86% of Black owned businesses go out of business in 1–5 years and one of…

8 min readDec 27, 2023

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The Life Lessons of Disease

For most of my life, I have had this pattern of manifesting strange and undiagnosable illnesses. As a little girl, my mom always said I was…

4 min readDec 9, 2023

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Reflections On Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto

I started reading the book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey, Founder of The Nap Ministry on a day that I called out from…

5 min readJun 16, 2023

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Why I gave my daughter a name that White people could easily pronounce

“give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to…

4 min readFeb 22, 2023

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I despise the term Black Excellence and you should too

I’m not sure who coined the term Black Excellence, but I despise it. It seems to be rooted in this idea of what White people deem as…

4 min readJun 13, 2023

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Summer Walker’s HardLife EP and Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I a Woman need to be discussed

Summer Walker’s song, HardLife, the second song on her new EP reminds Black men, You say you want me soft, but give me a hard life.

5 min readMay 25, 2023

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Eboni K. Williams saying she wouldn’t date a bus driver unless he owned the bus is a problem

And this is why…….

4 min readMay 4, 2023

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White women’s lies, Black men’s deaths

With the recent death of Emmett Till’s accuser Carolyn Bryant, it’s an opportune time to reflect on how White women’s lies have caused the…

7 min readApr 30, 2023

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Normal never felt normal to me

Before the pandemic our vision of normal may not have been the normal that we were dreaming about all along. So, when the pandemic started…

6 min readMar 17, 2023

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Nwenna Kai

Nwenna Kai

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Writer, educator, & wellness expert. Author of the books, The Goddess of Raw Foods, and The MoreLoves: Baba Builds a Sun Oven. I write about race and wellness.

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