We Don't Talk About Carol

by Kristen L. Berry

Black people make up like fourteen percent of the population of this country, but around forty percent of America’s missing kids are Black.

“Just because your father didn’t make good on his threats doesn’t make the threats themselves any less traumatic.”

the issue with repression is that the thing that’s hurt within us never heals.”

Why does everyone’s love for me only exist under the condition that I give up my own dreams?

talking about the things that scare us steals their power,”

when you are of a race of people that has been systematically disenfranchised by the country your ancestors had been brought to against their will, and hundreds of years later you are still struggling to free yourself from the shackles that limit your access to property, opportunity, and earning potential, your family’s hard-won good name might be all you have.