Can We Live: When Black Women Are Shielding, Yet Targeted By, Black Men

Picture it: Dallas, 2001. I was settling into my singleness and adjusting to the demands of working and raising my then-toddler son. Slowly dealing, but still feeling the weight of it all, but I sought solace in my friends, my family and my go-to elixir of choice, music. Mary J. Blige’s “No More Drama” and… Continue reading Can We Live: When Black Women Are Shielding, Yet Targeted By, Black Men

“Malcolm Little”: Facts Over Fallacies, The Ilyasah Shabazz DMN Interview

Oatmeal cookies, a rocking chair, a treasured baby doll and the smiling gentle giant with a commanding voice calling her name. To Ilyasah Shabazz, he was simply Daddy, but to the rest of the world, he was known as Malcolm X, the former felon turned Muslim Minister and human rights activist. In the years following… Continue reading “Malcolm Little”: Facts Over Fallacies, The Ilyasah Shabazz DMN Interview