Black Creole Chronicles essays "God is the color of

"God is the color of water

partisan politics and international diplomacy

She indicts the way media mistreats celebrity Black girls like Malia and Sasha Obama as well as fictional Black girls in popular shows and films like A Wrinkle in Time

Of all the changes to the old neighborhood

even as justice for his friend seems fleeting

Black Creole Chronicles essays "God is the color ofWho are Black Creoles? Saloy's new poems address ancestral connections to contemporary life, traditions celebrated, New Orleans Black life today, Louisiana Black life today, enduring and surviving hurricanes, romance, #BlackLivesMatter, #wematter, as well as poems of the pandemic lockdown from New Orleans. Saloy's new collection of verse advances and updates narratives of Black life to now, including day to day Black speech, the lives of culture