Pour Out…

There is a TikTok bestie that told me I was a “Bougie Auntie”. I was shocked! Me? Little ole me?! Then–I had to remember…I’m 40. I’m a baby elder, and …

The Definition Of Joy

Too often this idea, this identity of being Black is tied to trauma. What someone did to you, was doing to you, and how much abuse you survived. This is …

The Top 10 Of Loving You (Self-Care Things)

On today, I want to remind of these quick things take care of yourself: 1.) Sunlight is a great source of vitamin D. Go outside. 2.) Hot baths. 3.) Scented …

28 DAYS OF BLACKNESS: Final Reflections

I am a Black woman. I am neither ashamed to be Black nor woman. As this month ends, as chaotic as it was to get to this point, I am …

28 DAYS OF BLACKNESS: Where We Go

“Blackness is not a monolith.” This is what so many of us have heard, repeated or had to even remember for ourselves. For the course of this dynamic Black History …

28 DAYS OF BLACKNESS: Where We Are

James Baldwin said that we [as Black people] are in a unique position because we know that we are in trouble. I agree. Black people as a whole–we are in …

28 DAYS OF BLACKNESS: The Banning Of Black People

Note: TikTok is still racist as Gov. Greg Abbott. I said what I said. As of this posting, I am on my third page on the app known as TikTok. …

28 DAYS OF BLACKNESS: What They Say?!: Memoirs Of Famous Black People

I am a fan of my Audible app. I truly am! Being able to carry all of my books with me. I am an unrepentant bibliophile. Fight your exes, not …

28 DAYS OF BLACKNESS-“You Sound White”: The Harm Of Internalized Anti-Intellectualism

There is something so irritating when you as a Black person are told that “You sound white.” I have heard this since I was about 9 or 10 years old. …

28 DAYS OF BLACKNESS: More Of ‘The Harder They Fall’

Y’all didn’t think that I was let this month end without weighing in on this! I KNOW that y’all didn’t think that anything with Jonathan Majors in it I was …