“The Man,” The Trap, and Why I Can’t Find a Good Black Husband

The government’s fingerprints on a dating pool that shrank on purpose, from crack in the eighties to a welfare rule that punished a man for staying.
Walter Is Getting Older and I’m Not Ready

A six-year-old French Bulldog, the math on his lifespan, and everything he’s carried me through that I never carried for him first.