Happy Birthday 3rd Birthday Shaydon! I have a small confession. I hope you don’t mind, but I really wasn’t planning to celebrate this year. There’s been so much joy in my life recently! I got engaged and married the love of my life, truly my soulmate. I had an amazing wedding that was a night to remember! I moved to a brand new apartment with dishwasher,…
Shalane Walker I Am Not My Hair” is a famous song by India Arie full of the truth that is the struggle of being a Black woman with Black hair in a society with European beauty standards. I was only 9 when I asked my mom for my first relaxer, a very harsh chemical treatment that would make my curly hair permanently straight. Wearing my own…
After a neighbor posted a dangerous “crime warning” in our Facebook group, I wrote a “PSA” to help my other non-Black neighbors understand racial profiling