Tessa Williams, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/tessa-williams/ A Home for Black Women Writers Wed, 03 Jun 2020 20:27:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Tessa Williams, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/tessa-williams/ 32 32 153713158 The Riot Within: The Pain and Power of When They See Us and Why Black Traumatic Stories Matter https://www.midnightandindigo.com/why-black-traumatic-stories-matter/ Wed, 03 Jun 2020 20:13:00 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=76968 I was twenty-four years old when I learned about the Central Park Case. Browsing the documentary section on Amazon Prime, I happened upon a description that read: “Filmmakers examine a 1989 case, regarding five teenagers wrongfully convicted of raping a woman.” I watched the two-hour documentary in one sitting; embracing the fullness of a vital moment in our history, while bearing the possibility that those men could’ve been Dominic, Michael, Terrence, Mack, Solomon, Jaron, Sammy, Wesley, Justin, and Reggie. My ten brothers. This would be the first time I would experience the riot within. Four years later, the Central Park story would

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