Life My Body, Myself My breasts looked like two compressed, all-beef patties bound together by Lycra. I was sitting on the edge of a pool talking Kerra Bolton Posted on August 29, 2020
Essays Where Do We Go from Here? If you have followed my columns in recent months, you’ll notice that I’m building an intellectual and artistic architecture Kerra Bolton Posted on July 28, 2020
Essays What is Freedom Now? “Like a lot of black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.” – June Jordan, Jamaican American Kerra Bolton Posted on July 15, 2020
Essays This Time Is Different This time was not like the others. Following the deaths of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and Kerra Bolton Posted on June 24, 2020
Life How Our Foremother’s Collective Wisdom Can Save Lives “We gonna be alright.” I have heard some version of this refrain from every black woman I have spoken to since COVID-19 Kerra Bolton Posted on May 29, 2020
Humor African American Laugh Tracks to Get You Through the Pandemic We need to laugh now more than ever. For me, that means turning to African American comedians. African American comedy is Kerra Bolton Posted on April 28, 2020
Essays Practicing Grace The conversation was going nowhere fast. A friend and I argued about whether the COVID-19 pandemic would ultimately lead to Kerra Bolton Posted on March 26, 2020
Essays Rethinking Pink A friend once described me as “pink” and I wanted to punch her in the face. She meant it as a compliment to underscore my Kerra Bolton Posted on February 28, 2020
Essays, Uncategorized Are Role Models Necessary When You’re Grown? I have reached a strange age in life when many of my childhood heroes are dead or fallen. Like most life transitions, it Kerra Bolton Posted on January 29, 2020