Honoring My SHEROE March has long been celebrated as Women’s History Month — a time to honor the extraordinary women whose courage and conviction shaped our world. Yet, in recent years, we’ve witnessed deliberate efforts to silence or erase such observances, particularly those recognizing women and BIPOC communities. The attempt to diminish these celebrations is not just perplexing—it’s an affront to truth itself. Why strip acknowledgment from those whose labor, resilience, and vision built...

No One and Nothing Will Replace Us A Mantra for Our Survival No one and nothing will replace us. I repeat those words to myself often – not as defiance, but as remembrance. Because every generation of Black Americans has faced some attempt to eradicate us, to silence our stories, to write us out of the American narrative. And yet, we endure. Erasure in Real Time I think about how the Trump administration refuses to truly honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day, how it diminishes or ignores Black...

I Dream A Beloved Community December 28th arrives as a beautiful Sunday in Colorado, adorned with glistening white snow that appeared overnight like a gift from heaven. This spectacular snowfall transformed temperatures from the 70s on Christmas Day to the crisp 30s today — reminding us that change, though sometimes unexpected, can bring its own kind of magic. Sunshine pierces through a leafy, pale aqua sky, flooding the earth with effervescent light that seems to whisper: There is beauty...