Fifteen Black people have been found hanging from trees since 2019, and Black folks have every right to feel suspicious as hell.
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In August 1982, my biological mother wrote a note on a sheet of lined paper. The last sentence read, “I don’t hurt anymore. Goodbye.”
She tied a bedsheet around her neck and hanged herself from a heating pipe inside her sister’s house in Montclair, New Jersey. It was a private act that her family has been grieving for more than four decades. Yes, my…
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