PRAY extra hard over your food…which, these days, may or may not be primarily from the soil but from the lab (IYKYK). PSA: What’s really in and on the foods we eat?
And Just Like That, It’s a Wrap! Baby, We-Are-So-Back
The government’s back in bidness. It only took 43 days… The stress and disruption this shutdown caused was ridiculous and unnecessary! Of course, this happened just before the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Now we’re supposed to go out and, what, spend money and pretend this never happened?!
Assistance is Available During Difficult Times and Thoughts on Resilience, Resourcefulness & Asking for Help to Meet Basic Needs
For those of us who are 1. working poor and earning minimum wage (on salary), 2. lower-middle class (on salary), 3. independent contract gig workers, I don’t need to state the obvious so I won’t (mention that food prices are still crazy AF). For essentials like food, especially with the holidays coming up and the…
When the Left Hand Doesn’t Know What the Right Hand is Doing (Yeah, Right…)
Governor Gavin Newsom’s left hand passed some bills related to a study of some studies of reparations in the very near future for descendants of slavery in California. His right hand vetoed all the bills that would put money into the hands of descendants of slavery in California by way of cash restitutions for people…
Federal Employees and All Those Affected by the Federal Government Shutdown: Watch Y’all’s Time (Lines) #Day 17
Who, among us, works for the feds? Anybody affected by the shutdown? Furloughed? Recently Retired? Fired? SMH… This is Day #17. Just marking time as we cross the halfway point into Month 1.
To Be Read | The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America
***This post contains affiliate links. The B Board will receive compensation if a purchase is made after clicking on the graphics and links shown.*** Some spring/summer reading about systemic financial malfeasance and fraud committed against Black America: Emily Flitter’s book The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America “connects the dots between data, history, legal scholarship,…
Celebrating National Poetry Month in April
***This post contains affiliate links. The B Board will receive compensation if a purchase is made after clicking on the graphics and links shown.*** Hey, poets and poetry lovers, hey! It’s April. Know what that means? It’s National Poetry Month here in the U.S.! This month let’s commit to celebrate, write and read poems (and…