In 2020, the AUDELCO and Obie Award-winning Billie Holiday Theatre announced its annual call for Black women writers 50in50: Letters to Our Sons 2020 with founding partner Obie Award-winning Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop. For the fourth year, MacArthur “Genius” Dominique Morriseau’s curatorial statement calls Black women and girls from all walks of life to tell their stories: What does it mean to mother young Black men? Does it mean to birth them from your very womb? Or to teach and educate them in your classroom? Does it mean to coach them on a sports team? To be their case worker? Their legal adviser? Their therapist? (If they even partake in therapy at all) Their spiritual counselor? Pastor? Village of praying hands, summoning their protection and preservation?

Carol entered with no thought or preparation; that’s what she thought until her letter ‘The Ode To Sons’ was chosen as one of the 50 women to have their writings read by 50 professionals known to the writing and acting arena.