This is for Breonna. I’m always saying how Black women are mistreated in today’s culture, for centuries back even. Folks have heard me ramble on and on about it for the last three decades plus. And then, Spring of 2020, Breonna is shot and killed in her own apartment in Louisville, Kentucky. Guilty of sleeping… Read More This is for Breonna Taylor
It was five years ago when I relocated to New York City. Five years ago when he was lying on the ground chanting. “I can’t breathe”. I remember seeing that video on the news again and again. Infuriated. Folks were organizing, marching over on Staten Island where it all went down. I remember family and… Read More My America: Five and Finally
These days, I am sad, angry, mad, angry, speechless, sad and then even more sad again. Congresswoman Maxine Waters speaks out for my people. For black and brown people, and then, is asked to issue an apology. She stands strong for minorities, marginalized folk. Folks who often go unheard and unrepresented, especially in the mist… Read More My America: Politics & Policies
Born during the same period as my Father, although, unlike my octogenarian Father, raised in the north. Hair, the color of cumulus clouds in the sky. Face speckled with age spots which slowly appeared out of nowhere over the years. She was sitting on a park bench in the middle of the day. More than… Read More My America: Reality Check
