I guess I’ve been an art historian, informally I’d say I’ve always “geeked out over
I hear my student say that word and I’m not surprised. I knew this student
“Good lord, girl. You swelling!” The girl looked down at her belly, then beyond it
“You real fine and you pretty,” the smooth words rolled past his toothpaste commercial level
My mother’s eyes are bulging, glassy and wild, almost spinning in their sockets with fear.
“African-American girls always score higher than their white peers when it comes to self-esteem,” one
Black bodies are the world’s playground. Full of color, music, song, dance, cheer, and laughter
I sat on the couch of a woman who decorates her office to make it
My parents used to keep a lot of photo albums around the house. In one,
I have melanated skin, which helps me look younger than my age, but I also
There’s something about a porch that speaks to my soul, love one that’s furnished like
Daddy straddled the heap of toys that lived on the floor of our playroom in
I’ve been dreaming. In my dreams, my sisters sit in circle formation, our legs crossed
