Black Girl Approved: What Got Me Through 2020

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Contagion), I didn’t see how we could carry on. But then one night of endless phone scrolling, I answered a text from my coworker that said “Go to D-Nice’s page right now: He’s giving me life!” D-Nice was in his living room, playing hip hop classics and R&B deep cuts, and creating an experience that would become Club Quarantine.

Thinking back on that March night, and several after, it wasn’t the fact that Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey and J.Lo were all in the Club and reacting in real time when D-Nice played their respective songs.

It was the fact that music was connecting us: mind, body and soul. In that moment, my world carried on.This year has been a lot of things (hellish quickly comes to mind, anyone else?).