Social issues Archives | midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/category/social-issues/ A Home for Black Women Writers Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:34:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Social issues Archives | midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/category/social-issues/ 32 32 153713158 The Refrain https://www.midnightandindigo.com/the-refrain/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:34:14 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=79081 On Christmas night, I found peace in my mother’s rendition of a Jody Watley song. Only inches from the speakers, Mama sat cross-legged on the living room floor in a puffy red down coat and green winter cap. Swimming in sound, she sang along to feisty lyrics about a no-good man. I rested upright, cocooned in wool blankets on the dingy cream couch behind her. Our two-bedroom apartment on Florence Avenue was without heat and electricity, but Mama masterminded a way to get power by snaking an extension cord through a loose floorboard in the living room that led to

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]]> 79081 Eight Weeks; Two Days https://www.midnightandindigo.com/eight-weeks-two-days/ Sat, 17 Oct 2020 04:00:24 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77563 I was ten years old when I first witnessed domestic violence. It was a hot summer day on Hobart street. Children were playing; adults were sitting on their steps and porches just watching the day go by as we often did. Suddenly the usual neighborhood noise was interrupted by the piercing scream of a young neighbor. She burst out the door with her boyfriend chasing closely behind her. At once, all eyes were fixed on her and the commotion that ensued. As she ran down the stairs and onto the concrete, he grabbed for her; sheer terror filled her eyes

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