Twenty Minutes

Frostbite

I love snow. My early memories of snow are steeped in feelings of hope and wonder. There is something magical about how excited I felt as a child during snow storms in Sarajevo. Snow would come in abundance, brought from … Continued

Politics

Attacks against Immigrants, attacks Black America

I’m African-American and my family moved to California almost a hundred years ago after a lynching took place outside their hometown in Kentucky. I’m also undocumented, or in the current anti-immigrant vernacular, “illegal.”  I don’t have the necessary documents to … Continued