Confronting Complexities of Race and Policing in America (part 1 of 2)

(Edited public release media photo of Tyre Nichols from Bright Skylark Literary Productions archives)
​Waking to news about a governor canceling the teaching of advanced placement African-American studies courses in Florida, and five Black policemen beating to death a single unarmed Black man in Memphis, was not how I imagined kicking off Black History Month 2023. Most Americans probably had not. Those, however, were the headlines none of us could ignore because of the razor-sharp edges o...