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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.

2022

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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…

Mar 17, 2024

The Day my Daughter Learned about Skin Color

Mar 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…

Dec 27, 2023

Doing Business While Black

Dec 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…

Dec 9, 2023

The Life Lessons of Disease

Dec 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…

Jun 16, 2023

Reflections On Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto

Jun 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…

Feb 22, 2023

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

Feb 22, 2023

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…

Jun 13, 2023

I despise the term Black Excellence and you should too

Jun 13, 2023

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.

May 25, 2023

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

May 25, 2023

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

And this is why…….

May 4, 2023

May 4, 2023

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…

Apr 30, 2023

White women’s lies, Black men’s deaths

Apr 30, 2023

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…

Mar 17, 2023

Normal never felt normal to me

Mar 17, 2023

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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