Like many of you, this week, I have been obsessed with the confirmation hearings of soon-to-be US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (yes, I am naming it and claiming it 🙌🏾). Watching the proceedings, I have felt a range of emotions. First, pride, that a woman who looks like me is finally being considered for the US Supreme Court. While across Africa and the Caribbean, many Black women have not only served on their nation’s highest courts but also led them as

Compassion com·pas·sion | /kəmˈpaSHən/ “To suffer together.” "The feeling that arises when you are confronted with another's suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering.” The Greater Good Magazine Who deserves our compassion? I've asked myself this question often, but perhaps not more than in the past week as the world witnessed Vladimir Putin's old-school colonial incursion into Ukraine. This land grab was not gussied up like the “gentleman’s agreement” struck a