Do You Want to Be Strong Or Do You Want to Be Free?

I featured the poem, “The Strong Black Woman Is Dead” by Laini Mataka a few months ago and I’d like to revisit this piece. Here’s some excerpts but please go back and read it in its entirety: On August 15, 1999, at 11:55 p.m.,  while struggling with the reality  of being a human instead of [...]