I drink my coffee black. a grounded humanifesto by T. Valenza This short coffee humanifesto is a grounded, funny, and mindful celebration of life's simplest ritual - drinking a cup of black coffee. No cows need feel the squeeze of their udders to sip our cup of joe. Nor do we need sugarcane to be watered, grown, cut, ground, shipped, processed, and put into teeny-weeny paper packets. And just say nope to adding artificial sweeteners, oat milk, pumpkin spice, or yak butter. In our complicated world, T. Valenza celebrates the act of drinking black coffee in 10 small humanifesto paragraphs with warmth, wit, and a few philosophical sips.