“I didn’t know how to respond. I just looked at her, shocked into silence. The night I got my foster twins, I knew our life would look different to others. I knew there would be stares. But I wasn’t fully prepared for the comments that would unfold.”
‘An older woman came up to me in Publix. ‘Wow, those boys are lucky to have been chosen by a white woman.’ I was shocked into silence.’: Foster mom to twins urges ‘we need to do better’
No One Would Take In This Foster Boy With A Homeless Mother, Now He Has TWO Loving Moms
“‘We have a 3-year-old boy. His mother is homeless. No one will take him.’ Our jaws fell open.”
‘I was holding my 4th pregnancy test. I know, birth control is a thing. I had to consider another adoption.’: Single mom pursues open adoption twice, ‘I was scared this would define me’
“I felt free. I felt like I was following my inner warrior as she told me how to do the right thing for this child. I had no job, no savings, and was in no place to raise a baby alone. I wanted more for this sweet child.”
‘He looked at me and said, ‘When are you going to adopt me?’: Stepmom shares emotional adoption of teen son
“My heart nearly exploded. I started to cry and said, ‘Lets do it!’ I vowed to step up and parent a little boy, but truth is, he taught me more then I could ever teach him.”
I Will Not Be Like Derek Chauvin
“I am a black man. I am a police officer. I am ME.”
Why My Cop Father Has An Unfair Advantage
“He gets to come home every night and take it all off. He can walk away. Having that choice is a PRIVILEGE.”
My Bi-Racial Family Has To Fight Against Racism Every Day
“Racism is built on little assumptions and small biases that make people of color out to be ‘aggressive’ or ‘suspicious.’”
My Husband Got Pulled Over For Being Black
“No ticket, no explanation. They just assumed because I had a big black guy in my passenger seat, I was in danger.”
As A Foster Dad, I Need To Better Understand POC Struggles
“This is not a political issue. It’s personal. You see, I have three Ahmauds who sleep under my roof every night.”
‘There’s no way to prove he didn’t know you didn’t want it.’ Fighting back tears, I said, ‘I was asleep.’: Sexual assault survivor represses memory for 3 years. ‘If this is what I needed to go through to learn all of this, then I am thankful’
“Every so often, the officer would say, ‘It doesn’t seem like you knew him really well.’ I was getting so frustrated. Does it matter? Would that change things?”