black motherhood

Baby, sometimes the officer is the bad guy

Seeing my son dressed as a police officer triggered so many emotions.

How to talk to your children about the #BlackLivesMatter protests happening around the country

Talking about the reason for these demonstrations—the death of yet another unarmed black man at the hands of a police officer—is so important.

Dear white moms, here’s what I need you to know

I so desperately need you to have conversations with your children about racism.

Dear white friends, please love my black sons as if they were your own

Love them and demand America do the same.

My Black family is safer in quarantine than in normal life

It shouldn't be this way.

I’m the mom of black sons and I fear for their safety every day

Including how to dismantle it. So that cases like Ahmaud Arbury do not happen again.

Why the ‘Black Panther’ film is so important to me and my kids

It’s so much more than a movie to me.