Things No One Said I became a widow in the dark. Weeks earlier, I had finally moved out of the FEMA trailer. It wasn’t a fresh start. It was just another chapter in survival. No one pulled me to the side and said, “A…

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Becoming Whole: My Story of Survival, Motherhood, and Finding Me Held Together by Hope

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I only walked a 1-mile radius and came across 4 folks with the same sign, 'anything helps.' Do I do anything? Do I say anything? Do I offer anything?

Becoming Whole: My Story of Survival, Motherhood, and Finding Me Held Together by Hope

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You know better.

Be you!

Fresh Start Help Me Build a Fresh Start

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Another storm is moving across
this country.
Literally.
Figuratively. #thisisamerikkka #roundups #sweeps #raids #dea #ice #fear

Waltz You ever

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worship
I worship my ancestors
I believe in a spirt world, supernatural beings, and free will.
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Friday After Next Christmas 2002 I was a new wife, had a 2 & a 1 year old; only one walking, both in diapers.

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Child in college, has had a cyst in arm pit for several years now. Due to insurance cost, we have never been able to see a dermatologist and can’t afford to have someone look at it. #sendhelp

For all of y’all. I send peace and blessings.

From the Desk of Ms. Shannon LIVE FULLY The most important things in LIFE cannot be seen but must be felt with the HEART . BE KIND, GENEROUS, & SIMPLIFY. Have...

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Did teachers grade leniently during the #crackepidemic #eighties #nineties

Sadness of the situation in which you were born.

The pressures I live under are inhuman!

James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni "A Conversation". Full Broadcast Video YouTube video by LoVetta Jenkins (Chatty Passenger)

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Sun lashes.

Any road The difference between me and the women I’m photographed with (over the years) is goals.

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How does your life play out when you’re in perpetual hejj!!!🙏🏽

I prayed for hands that work, asked for a hard worker. I didn’t pray for someone kind, gentle, understanding, healthy. Didn’t give it thought until now. #bespecific #ysltrial

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Yes!!

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Please, Miss April, ma’am.

Been broke my entire adulthood. Financially. Mentally. #broke

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#PNW #sunset #coolglow man and his pup. #eveningwalks

@colmandomingo.bsky.social 6-2 in hiding. #madness

Sunset Lashes over at Amelia’s place #eveningwalk #neighborhood #grateful