You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black ExperienceIt started as a text between two friends. Tarana Burke, founder of the 'me too.' Movement, texted researcher and writer Bren Brown to see if she was free to jump on a call. Bren assumed that Tarana wanted to talk about wallpaper. They had been trading home decorating inspiration boards in their last text conversation so Bren started scrolling to find her latest Pinterest pictures when the phone rang. But it was immediately clear to Bren that the

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood

Poitier was uncompromising as he pursued a personal and public life that would honor his unbringing and the invaluable legacy of his parents

An everyday moment became an extraordinary one

shows you why we feel how we feel

Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement

And Noemí

When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street

"Never have I read a story that so flawlessly hits the highest high and lowest low notes of Black girlhood in pursuit of the American Dream

"What does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation

only to discover that she is still subordinate to him and all men

compassionate and wise

which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally