Racist Art Display + Halloween 2019
It’s Halloween y’all! For folks who have been following this news story in the NYT, Amersterdam News, the NY Post and the Brooklyn Eagle, I was horrified to find out […]
Fall: The Season of Transition and Preparation
#FallTransitions
#JourneysB2B
June is Caribbean American Heritage Month
For folks that know me, celebrating my Caribbean heritage is an important aspect of my ethnic and personal identity that I am proud to talk about and display at every […]
The Nostalgia of School Daze
If you are an aficionado of Black “coming of age” comedies and commentaries that embed Black culture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, then you can appreciate my reference […]
Musings on Black Love as Self-Love
In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, I went through the exercise of identifying and framing, for my desk, three quotes from up and coming African descended women poets: […]
Hair, Hair, oh,Glorious Hair is NOT Innocuous
Hair, hair, hair, hair… Grow it, show it… Long as I can grow it… My hair.. I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggyRatty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, […]
Sisterhood is Family
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. Oprah Winfrey We often set aside the month of March to celebrate and acknowledge the accomplishments of women, […]
If you think Blackface is cool, then you support white supremacy–and we can’t be friends…
Full stop. Wearing bronzer and foundation 7+ more shades darker than your natural skin tone, exaggerating and bastardizing certain physical features, dress, music, vernacular in a Sambo-like fashion, whether it’s […]
Black History Month 2019: A Reflective Essay
seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history. President Gerald R. Ford (1976) Since 1976, the month of […]
The Journey Begins…
I once read somewhere that writers who don’t accept they’re on a journey into the unknown will never produce works that last in the hearts and minds of their audience. […]