Beloved Queen Mother, Phylicia Rashad, comes from the cloth of my grandmother, my mother and even me in a sense. A cloth woven by the threads that loyalty is royalty and that we handle our business behind the thrown and glimmer a smile, even while the crown cracks. What gave way for the Michelle Obama’s and Kamala Harris’s ...

From the moment Bill Cosby’s conviction was overturned, that Busta Rhymes beat from, “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See”, has been in my head (Boom a, boom, boom, boom, boom a, boom, boom, boom). I just couldn’t get those tribal sounds of my ancestors out of my mind. Like they were speaking to me. Now I am a di...