As two little brown girls growing up in what we now know was “the hood”, we envisioned our lives playing out much better than the cards we were dealt. Being pregnant at the senior prom and having a three-week-old baby in tow at the high school graduation was just the beginning.
Life got real and prepared or not, we were now on a path to what seemed like a never-ending struggle. We didn’t know much, but what we did know was we were determined to do anything possible to sidestep the stereotypes and eliminate the judgments.