Author: Elise Taylor

The Miracles That Make Us America

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I believe in personal myths, not the tales repeated during bedtime routines, but the kind that remind you of the improbability of existence, that make you see your own life as a sequence of miracles. If you trace backward, every small event, every misstep or lucky chance, stacks together, a chain of moments that somehow […]

Remembering Trayvon Martin

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I began writing this on February 26, the thirteenth anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death. Years have passed and the same question remains: freedom to, or freedom from? Said juxtaposition frames the entire relationship society had with the murder of Travyon Martin — although I know the jury didn’t view it that way. Did Travyon Martin […]

Know We Are Not Going Back

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Waiting for the right moment may lose you the only moment. Although this election was not meant for Black women, we chose to make it ours. It was a 92-day campaign of dreams, action, and taking the future into our own hands. Black women, heralded as the backbone of the Democratic Party, have embodied this […]