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Making Peace With My Daddy Issues
Writing at Ebony, Ebonie Johnson Cooper explores the pain of her father’s absence and the healing she’s found by reconnecting with him. It had been over 25 years since I last communicated with my biological father. As far as I was concerned, I was fatherless after the man who raised me died. So when I…
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Buppie Love: Do We Need to Let the Fantasy Go?
In a piece for Ebony, Ebonie Johnson Cooper asks whether the Clair-and-Cliff, Jada-and-Will and Barack-and-Michelle standard is actually getting in her way. Like many of my peers, I lived the early part of my twenties anticipating life to be just a few short years away from the Claire & Cliff life. Jada & Will status. …