Black Lives Matter, Too"Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean this fist, but it does mean resistWhen oppression and injustice are not up for discussionInsurrections and protections when wrongs aren’t corrected. It means black is equal, inherits the same rights,Liberties, protections, and the pursuit of happiness as whites

We still tiptoe around having an honest discussion about what it really means to exist while Black in this country. All lives can’t matter if Black lives don’t matter. Demanding equality and equity isn’t radicalism. This is realism. We make these demands because the Constitution isn’t an accurate reflection of Black life in this country. If liberty escapes few, it escapes all.

Blood-Stained"Six minutes, no medics, I gasped as ragged breaths escaped my lungs.“Hold on, Bre, hold on,” my love pleaded, but I was already gone.I drowned in my own life’s blood as I heard my love weep for me.Lord, wake us from this nightmare – we want to go back to sleep.

The Run"It’s the middle of the day, I know some are home,and they see and hear the wrong that’s going on.A Black man is being hunted on their street,That’s why no one calls in help for me.I hear the shots, three times I’m struck.I try and try, but I can’t get up.My head is lifted toward the sky, No pain, I’m riding the runner’s high.

Stunning"Melanin rich and honeyed, butter brown syrupy‘Da blacker the berry, the sweeter the sweetGirl, all hues of the ebony rainbow shineOur rind so rare, age like fine wineLips plump like cherries ready to be picked.Dey spend all kind of money tryin’ to look like ‘dis

We have to teach, tell, and show Black girls that they are beautiful ... that there is no standard of beauty, only defining it. And we, Black girls, define beauty, too. Our hair, shade, shape, and features are beautiful. We set trends, and the world follows.

American Soup"We've taken the lid off, the pot is boiling over.Watch yourself, don't touch itlest you burn and bear the scarsof that good ole American melting potthat’s cracking under the weight of its faux democracy.