Niara Imani Riddick: Personal Narrative

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Niara Imani Riddick. Woman of purpose that brings peace. This name was given to me two weeks after the day I was born, May 20th, 1999. Born at five pounds, six ounces and five weeks early to a child herself, Bianca Riddick, who was at the tail end of her 10th-grade year in high school and fresh into sixteen. “Super day super mom!”. This is what I used to say to my mom every morning before High School, starting in the ninth grade. She would, of course, say it back, “Super day superstar!”. It seemed as though it was this simple text message every morning that got me to where I am currently, that one text that got me through the grueling pressures of High School in order to be where I am today. In reality, it wasn’t. Many obstacles have tried

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