race matters

All writers are hungry for compliments about their work, so...

When my goddaughter was called the N-word at school, I was heartbroken but not surprised...

"Black people were never in romance novels, unless it was as a hooker."

"That’s some white people shit," I imagined everyone thinking.

When I was little, I never learned to swim...

From board books to graphic memoirs.

"For a split second, you think, how am I gonna help a white baby out? But then it was like, 'This is a baby, girl. Get it together.'"

When my husband and I took our daughters to visit family in Puerto Rico...