Lottie L. Joiner is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer. Her work has been published in a number of media outlets including The Washington Post, USAToday, The Daily Beast, Essence and TheRoot.com.
Lottie Joiner
This year’s official theme for Black History Month is ‘Black Resistance.’ Here are inspiring ways we can lean in to culturally rich activities and share recreation as a radical act.
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First came the pain. Then the pivot. ‘Everything that I had been putting into a relationship with that man, I put into me, and my whole world opened up,’ says D’Shawn Faison.