Life Stories (page 12)

The Life Stories section features insightful commentary and essays about the human experience from Salon.

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Martin Luther King JR. Memorial Statue

We don't want monuments, we want justice

Takirra Winfield Dixon

Huey Newton; Ice Cube

Ice Cube helped launch my education

Darryl Robertson

Empty Halloween pumpkin candy bucket

The year of no Halloween

Eleanor Henderson

Children

I'm sheltering my kids as long as I can

Alanah Nichole Davis

Raising My Son In A Kale World

Raising a Black son in a white world

Shauntrice Martin

Toxic Masculinity

Unlearning toxic masculinity

Sujata Day

Navigating Hollywood as a woman of color

Joe Biden

Biden's openness about addiction matters

Sean Daniels

Naomi Osaka

On being an unapologetic Black woman

Takirra Winfield Dixon

George Floyd; Mural; Memorial

The dark spectacle of racist violence

Kondwani Fidel

Health; COVID-19

The new healthy me gets a COVID scare

Basketball Court

They arrested me for playing basketball

Darryl Robertson

Cleaning supplies and medical face masks

"We're in survival mode"

Nina Gonzalez, Ela Banerjee

Medical face mask surrounded by hospital bills

"How are we going to pay these bills?"

Soledad Castillo, Ela Banerjee

We Will NEVER Stop Fighting for BLACK Women sign

I'm a Black woman, not a woman of color

Takirra Winfield Dixon

The Last Story Of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

I felt responsible for my mother's life

Nancy Jooyoun Kim

Andrew Cuomo; Gina Gionfriddo and her father

Watching Cuomo, grieving my father

Gina Gionfriddo

Empty prison hallway

COVID-19's threat to aging prisoners

Todd Oppenheim

Sex work without contact in the pandemic

Hunter R., Andrea Quijada

Reading his way through the pandemic

Yusufu Mosley, Audrey Petty

Classroom; white board

The awakening of the American white mind

Randall Horton

Maracas; Face Mask; Window

"I feel we have no voice"

Anastasia Bravo, Dao X. Tran

MOVE Bombing; Police

Apologies for MOVE bombing aren't enough

Mike Africa Jr.

Kanye West

Kanye West, bipolar disorder and me

Darryl Robertson

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