Jamilah Lemieux. Courtesy of Aria Askari via Jamilah Lemieux. Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, editor, public speaker, and a former senior editor at Ebony. Her work focuses on the issues of race, gender, and motherhood. This essay is an adapted excerpt from her book "Black. Single. Mother.: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging" I announced my daughter Naima's birth with a picture that I snapped just moments after she was handed to me in the delivery room. I didn't notice it immediately, but it