At the Dallas Police Department/Korean American Safety Town Hall Meeting on Monday night, you didn’t have to speak the language to know the feelings that were dominating the room. These citizens gathered in the wake of three racially motivated shootings at Korean-owned and operated businesses and they wanted answers.
Gunshots rang out in the hallway near the chambers, and windows were shattered throughout the building. An unidentified woman inside reportedly was shot in the neck. Her condition is currently unclear. The National Guard joined the Secret Service, FBI, Capitol Police, and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police at the scene.
“Good Mourning,” is a one-man play that digs into grief, trauma, loss and mental health.
In 2019, Drake published his first book, “Color Him Father” as a resource for Black grieving fathers. The title of the book was inspired by the song “Color Him Father” by the 60s musical group, The Winstons.
One of the definitions of grief is “deep sorrow, especially that is caused by someone’s death.” I recently lost my sister to cancer, a battle she bravely fought with God and all of my family by her side. We are people of faith, Christians, and I was deep in my belief that healing and complete restoration was soon to come — but it didn’t. So I’m left to deal with the g-word — grief. No one wants to deal with grief because it’s nowhere near pleasant and it’s a lifetime process. The loss of a loved one stays with you