This post comes from contributor Dawn Comer Jefferson; read on. 
My name is Dawn Comer Jefferson and I’m an African American, married, mother of two.  I’m a writer.  I write for magazines, ezines, radio, television, features, anyone who will pay me.  I’d write the fortunes for fortune cookies if the check cleared.  Probably something like, “You are destined for great things.  Try the Moo Shu Pork.”  So, as a writer, I was delighted when my daughter Nicole, who is seven, told me that she and her friends were writing plays.  Nicole …