Living in Italy's 'La Zona Rosa' as a Black American Woman
by Kaia Niambi Shivers from on (#50MKZ)
The moan of a harmonica woke me up early Tuesday morning. It was my phone's notification alerting me of an email from New York University's global office. All classes on their campus in Florence, Italy were suspended immediately. As a visiting professor from NYU's New York campus, my life changed with an email.