It Only Took Me 28 Black History Months to Figure It Out

I have always been insecure about my own blackness. Meaning, I have always been concerned that I haven’t earned the right to call myself a black American woman. Of course, I am black and a woman AND I was born here, but I was born to Sierra Leonean parents who immigrated here and raised me with a lot of the cultural practices of their homeland, a place …