TaRessa Stovall is a veteran writer and strategic organizational communications expert specializing in cultural perspectives. Her column, "Diverse City," runs in the award-winning Montclair Times newspaper, and her books include "A Love Supreme: Real-Life Stories of Black Love," "The Buffalo Soldiers," (a  young adult history book) and her debut novel, "The Hot Spot." TaRessa has also co-edited the best-selling anthologies, "Proverbs for the People: Contemporary African-American Literature," and, most recently, "Other People's Skin: Four Novellas," a quartet of stories focusing on healing the skin-hair rift between African American women. Learn more about "Other People's Skin" at http://www.empowerourselves.org/, and about TaRessa at http://www.taressa.com/.