On Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., the world watched as a Black and South Asian woman took a well-earned position of power in the nation’s government. Kamala Harris embodies the ideal of a multiracial, gender-equal democracy; but it was another Black woman, Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, who captured the…
If you were to create the perfect point guard, you’d want a floor general with court savvy and a high basketball IQ, who’s a tremendous and willing passer that also plays suffocating defense.
I know what the headline says, but we’re not actually gonna talk about the inauguration today—at least not the formalities of it.
It’s been 12 years since I last felt how I felt while I begrudgingly watched some of the inauguration yesterday. Whatever relief experienced in ridding of the outgoing president (minimal) or pride in witnessing history (eh), was flattened by an anxiety that something terrible was going to happen. And so from the time…
