I wrote this in 2014. It is heartbreaking that it is still relevant. // For all those departed and all those left behind // I find names etched into broken pieces of my heart Too many to list but all necessary to remember our broken hearts are mirrors we splinter into…

After the murders of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Aubrey, and the police being called on Christian Cooper, my first reaction to the murder of George Floyd vacillated between sadness and numbness. The feeling began as a tightness in my sinuses, the same feeling as the onset of spring. But a…

Rough Enough to Break New York from Long Island — Rakim Allah Welcome to Long Island — the place where I was called nigger at four years old. Shouts from an old rich white man carpet-bombed my mother’s Buick Regal. We were driving back from the…