There is no feeling that compares to the car ride from Midway Airport to my Bronzeville community. The view of the skyline from I-55 featuring a new skyscraper I can’t quite place,…
In almost every African-American family, no matter how successful or how much they are struggling, there’s always one family member, usually a Black woman, who takes on the “superhero” role. We all…
In almost every African-American family, no matter how successful or how much they are struggling, there’s always one family member, usually a Black woman, who takes on the “superhero” role. We all…
I have imagined how this breakup would go over a hundred times now in my head. While everyone in my office is away at lunch on a hazy summer afternoon, I’d secretly…
It is my belief that you don’t choose New Orleans – New Orleans chooses you. Those who have fallen for her, live with her, are sprung, lost and turned out in love…
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In her article, “The Age of Instagram Face”, writer Jia Tolentino posed the question, “What did it mean, I wondered, that I have spent so much of my life attempting to perform…
The irony that my first glimpse of the video of George Floyd, crying out for his deceased mother as he died while pinned beneath the weight of a police officer’s knee on a Minneapolis street, was on the same day as my own black son’s kindergarten graduation is not lost on me.
My love life during quarantine…where do I even begin? I don’t think any of us thought that Covid-19 would wreck 2020 the way that it did. Jobs have been lost and people…
I have enjoyed my share of post-apocalyptic flicks in my day, but I can’t say that in my wildest dreams I had ever imagined living through one. Enter 2020 along with a…
