Trina Williams, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/trina-williams/ A Home for Black Women Writers Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:43:15 +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 Trina Williams, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/trina-williams/ 32 32 153713158 Black and White https://www.midnightandindigo.com/black-and-white/ Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:41:44 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77618 Trina, I need you to stay inside for recess today. You are a little Black girl in a world that’s White. You are a first-grader. You can read. You are a leader. You know all of the sight words before I assign them for homework. Today, I want you to stay inside and lead your people. These words would resonate with me into adulthood. As an older Black girl in a White world, I would make direct parallels to “lead your people” with the likes of Moses, of Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglass–shoes I could never fill, role models who

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