“Repeat after me,” Yazmin’s father said as he dropped her off at preschool.“You are Black and beautiful, you are smart, you are kind, you are important, and you can do anything” Yazmin, in her tiny yet confident voice, yelled from her car seat, “I am Black and beautiful, I am smart, I am kind, I […]

I’ve got to tell you that when I was going through some of my most unhappy times, I prayed. I always pray. But when I found it difficult to get motivated to go to work in the morning because I knew my calling was someplace else and change was coming but had not yet arrived, […]