Facing Blackness . . . Thanks for Sharing
My name is Dearest Price, one of the managers of Black Line News. I use to say I was an owner but I realized I can’t own a culture. I can’t own compassion to promote others. I can’t own Blackness. Over the years many people have said you will make a lot of money on Black Line if you just change the name. Well Black Line wasn’t created to ...
This Battle Is Not Yours
This Battles Not Yours, It's The Lords By Dearest PriceAgape VoiceI am praying for Ukraine. My heart bleeds for a people that went to work, school, the mall and congregated with friends and family one day to being air raided, forced to bunker down in subways and murdered the next. This attack is not only shocking to the innocent citizens of that na...
It was January 20th, 1986, 18 years after his death and the dream was still being deferred. It was during a time when the only songs MTV would play in Black culture were Michael Jackson and we stayed disillusioned in the lyrics of Billie Jean, being proud, “the kid is not my son”. It was when the crack epidemic wa...
Dear Self, Betrayal wrote me on New Years Eve and at first I had nothing to say. He called me by my old name, like my old school friends would yell down the way. They would rough me up on Saturday then by Sunday forget about it all. And to just be outside in the sunlight, removed any embarrassment of the fall. I o...
AsDear Dearest, I have an issue that is really getting next to me emotionally. I am a consultant and I met this 16 year old young lady. We discussed some issues in regard to her family that were confidential and concluding our encounter, I needed her signature on a document. She proceeded by printing her name. I asked her again for her s...
Dear Dearest, I have a 19 year old daughter that I adore more than life itself. Her mother and I never got along; a street gutter woman with a hot temper that would keep me away from my daughter at the slightest missed payment of child support. But my child always wanted to be with me, so at 16, she ran away and...
Dear Dearest, I have raised my daughter along with her mother since the day we brought her home from the hospital. My love for her is unconditional but it has been rocky for me and her mother. During our turbulent times she has thrown in my face that I am not the father to my beautiful baby girl who is now 7. I am planning on leavin...
Dear Dearest, I contracted COVID in March of this year. I was very resistant to go to the hospital when I began to get sick but my son insisted because of my age and health. I tested positive and immediately was admitted. During the 3 week stay in the hospital I may remember two days. But it was the most horrifying experience I...
Dear Dearest, I’ve had a period where I ran the streets and messed with drugs. It was due to a rough upbringing by an abusive mother. I have two sons and they were put in foster care, reported by my mother. I can’t seem to forgive her because she put them in the system when she could have taken them in herself. She says she raised her ki...
Dear Dearest, I am a single co parent of four. I met a beautiful lady that I thought I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. She has 3 kids of her own. After two years of dating we moved in together. She does everything for me but since we added the kids it’s been a disaster. My children can not stand her and...
Dear Dearest, My daughter is a beautiful, chocolate, 18 year old whose personality just glows. But she recently told me that she never had a boy talk to her and that most boys she knows just don’t like Black girls. I asked her what she meant and she told me most Black boys are not attracted to Black girls unless they ...
Dear Dearest, My husband can’t respond to me without being verbally abusive. He humiliates me in public and private. He yells at me in front of our children like I am a child. He is so mean. We have children from different partners but he is especially cruel in front of his own children. Most of the time it’s over the simplest ...