Ebonie Ledbetter, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/ebonie-ledbetter/ A Home for Black Women Writers Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:34:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ebonie Ledbetter, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/ebonie-ledbetter/ 32 32 153713158 I Got Mono (and Not the Fun Way) https://www.midnightandindigo.com/i-got-mono/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:53 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=81679 In my best Sophia Petrillo impression: Picture it: Harlem, 2007. Gentrification creeped its way into the historically Black neighborhood, but a decade would pass before a Whole Foods popped up on W. 125th Street. George W. Bush was in his second presidential term, and absolutely no one thought a Black politician named Barack Obama would become his successor. Kanye West’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” blasted from speakers, long before the rapper would wear Make America Great Again hats and praise Adolf Hitler. Apple released its first iPhone that summer, forever changing mobile technology. Beyonce topped that year’s Billboard 100 with

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