my mother's tomorrow

Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead is a Professor of Communication and African and African American Studies and the founding executive director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice at Loyola University Maryland. She is the host of the award-winning radio show Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA, 88.9 FM, and the author of four books, including the award-winning Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis and Letters to My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America. Originally from South Carolina, she is the daughter of Rev. Carson and Bonnie Wise and currently lives in Baltimore with her husband and two sons. She can be reached on Twitter @kayewhitehead and on IG/ reads @blackmommyactivist.