In 1943, someone captured a photo Hollywood never wanted the world to see. Mae West — the boldest, freest woman in cinema — was walking down the street beside a Black man: Albert “Chalky” Wright. He wasn’t an actor. He wasn’t an extra. He was real. And what connected them was just as real. Chalky […]

“My parents were married for 55 years. One morning, my mom was going downstairs to make dad breakfast, she had a heart attack and fell. My father picked her up as best he could and almost dragged her into the truck. At full speed , without respecting traffic lights, he drove her to the hospital. […]

The little dog I mentioned yesterday came back—and this time, she stayed. After talking to neighbors, I found out she’d been abandoned just days earlier—likely because she was pregnant. Since then, she had been wandering door to door, simply looking for kindness. When she reached my doorstep, I offered her food—and that was all it […]