Sublime

Above all, she taught me the importance of using my voice as a Black woman in America to call out injustice wherever I see it. Her story and the lessons she taught through her words and example provide a model for how I approach the ongoing fight for human rights.

anathema

for she “was now in a civilized country, where . . . people are judged of by their clothes.” Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

Tu es un sacré brave type et je t'aime plus que personne au monde. Je ne pourrais pas te dire cela à New York. On me prendrait pour une tante. C'est ce qui a déclenché la guerre civile. Abraham Lincoln était une tante. Il était amoureux du général Grant. Jefferson aussi. Lincoln a aboli l'esclavage à la suite d'un pari. L'affaire Dred Scott fut

We gave birth to babies that were American citizens and in whose names we could finally lease land.

three years before my birth. In the United States, African Americans are 25 percent more likely to die of cancer than Whites. My father survived prostate cancer, which kills twice as many Black men as it does White men. Breast cancer disproportionately kills Black women.

quiescence,