When you’re a black woman, sometimes protecting someone you love takes over your pain. Leave him, I begged. A few years ago, I lived in a tiny apartment next to a young couple. They were black and in their late 20s. They were always fighting. For one year, I heard the woman’s screams, her pleadings, …
Month: April 2022
‘Which Books Do You Pull From Your Bookshelf and Read Again Whenever Racial Discrimination Makes You Feel Like You’re Falling Into a Black Hole?’
An answer to a subscriber’s question. Today I’m answering a subscriber’s question I received this week. Here’s my answer to, ‘Which books do you pull from your bookshelf and read again whenever racial discrimination makes you feel like you’re falling into a black hole?’ Before I became a writer, I read a lot. After I …