Crafting a Ritual for Sound Sleep

I cut a loc in four sections and arrange them in a square on my nightstand, placing one fourth of a note in the middle. People usually listen only half of the time when I tell a story, so I cut mine into quarters so I only have to repeat half a memory at a time.

Legacy (The Importance of Safe Spaces)

Create a space where there is breath, and love, and trust, and faith, and tension, and magic, and pain, and ease, and accountability, and respect.

Playing in My Mother’s Closet

My relationship with my African heritage is a bit like the first time you discover your mother’s closet. Everything is beautiful, so many colors, and laces, and embroideries, and hats! Oh my God, the hats! And the shoes! You begin to see that your mother is a magnificently…

When the Trees Cry and Bleed

None of us are impervious to poisoned water and leached soil.

As Black people, as Black women, we have always had to be better than the vast pools of White mediocrity that seem to continue to triumph in spaces and opportunities they don’t deserve. All…