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The police jumped to protect my white teen daughter and her friends. If only Black girls received the same care.
Op-eD in The Chicago Tribune
I address the disparities between the treatment by the police.
Young girl in a First Communion dress in 1936, eyes closed outside her graystone apartment.
Chicago Magazine
My mother, Dolores, lost her father as a child but avoided discussing the night he died — until one evening during the pandemic.
THE TOAST MAGAZINE
This essay, selected by Roxane Gay, all about my long journey toward motherhood: “On Fertility.”
HUMOR: “Three Lunatic Misunderstandings of the Urban Midwest” published in Essay Daily.
On Aerial Views
Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2020