“I believe there is power in words, power in asserting our existence, our experience, our lives, through words.”

— Jesmyn Ward, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (2016)

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“For such a time as this…”

Well friends, the day is here. The day we have waited for since Midterms 2018. Election Day 2020. I have been feeling so many feelings and trying to process my thoughts while not spiraling because elections remind me of my godfather. I distinctly remember him taking me to Springside (a school) to vote with him and sometimes lil’ me even got to hit the voting button even if I wasn’t supposed to. I remember how since he had three TV’s in his bedroom (yep), CNN was always on one of them. So here I am, decades later, in my own fight with my community to help our people get out the vote.

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