Tag: America

• Reflections

  ​Dear Self, Sometimes your love alone isn’t enough to combat the diseases that live in other people’s hearts.  Sincerely, Tyra 

  Tyra

  October 7, 2016

  Art, beauty, Community Issues, family, Literature, love, News, opinion, Poetry, Race and ethnicity, Relationship, Self-Help, social media, Writing

  addiction, America, disease, domestic abuse, ethnicity, families, love, race, racism, relationships, self-love, self-worth

• Dear Black Man (excerpt)

  Dear Black Man, I hear your pain and acknowledge your anger. Persecution came barreling down at every angle long before this country’s first census. Witnesses stayed disabled, whitewashed or fabled to serve and protect while weapons char your bodies, and your humanity is neglected. I get it now; popularity not protests nor pussy can help…

  Tyra

  July 7, 2016

  Art, Community Issues, family, Literature, opinion, Poetry, Relationship, Self-Help, social media, Writing

  America, Black men, Black women, body image, brutality, class, diversity, letters, murder, poetry, police, police brutality, post racial society, race, relationships, scandal, writer