The way black women say “girl” can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it’s going to happen I know what I want to...

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women.

Mogadishu the beautiful – your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of...

In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.

As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.