Black women earning degrees is forever a flex and I’m tired of people acting like it’s not. It was once ILLEGAL for us to read. Every graduation is a form of resistance.
I don’t even have the words… D’Angelo’s music is the soundtrack to my writing. My place of peace. Brown Sugar, Voodoo, Black Messiah - that trifecta has gotten me through so many times. I don’t know how to even begin to process losing a giant like him… This one hurts.
People who say this election could be the "end of democracy" are so extra...
Or maybe they know the TRUE history of the election-denying white supremacist who led a violent insurrection, overturned a presidential election and ended democracy in America.
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