by Valerie Morales After it was announced that Nikola Jokić earned the MVP award which rocked the city of Philadelphia there was an article in my inbox about why he deserved it, as if Jokić needed both defending and mansplaining, as if the other candidate who was in the running…

by Valerie Morales Kyrie Irving was two months old when the city I lived in burned. For babies like Kyrie, born the year of the Rodney King riots, it felt like a bleak and depressing future. In 1992 not much had changed from the deadly fifties and sixties, nothing had…