In 2020, the world went silent—and at the same time, it rose up. This piece is my response to that moment, shaped by the collective cry of the Black Lives Matter movement and a personal meditation on the weight of injustice.

It reflects on how deeply racism is rooted and how wrong it is to measure a person’s worth by the color of their skin.

All colors make black. And black, the fullest and richest of them all, carries the strength of every shade within it.