• Memory of My Absent Dad Pushed My Single Mother

    Raised by her single mother, Sharda Sekaran reflects in a piece for Ebony.com on how her absent father’s legacy of intelligence pushed her mother to push her. My mother has struggled throughout her life with an undiagnosed developmental disorder. She grew up in a 1950s working class Black family in Detroit. There was little information about…

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  • How Losing My Father Affected My View of Marriage

    When a man walks out on his toddler never to return, leaving her in the care of her mother, his actions leave a mark. Still, Ebony contributor Sharda Sekaran says that as an adult, she doesn’t make her hate the idea of marriage, in spite of her past. However, after celebrating marriage equality for others, a…

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