A note about the short story “Diaspora Café” from Vince Omni for the Michigan Quarterly Review's Summer 2024 issue: I spend a lot of time in coffee shops, or at least in the genre of coffee shops that has come to characterize American culture: big, busy, expensive. They are great places for working and for people watching. They are also, by and large, very homogeneous. “The Diaspora Café” is my humble attempt to remake that genre from a Black perspective in my hometown of Denver, CO, where rampant gentrification has displaced black and brown people.