Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSIn this episode, we contend with the topic of Black love as self-love with guest Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere—book author and contributing writer (for the Tico Times and…
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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: Alexandra Elle, Upile Chisala and Cleo Wade. Claim it. All of it. Release what no longer serves you. Journey forward. Be unanswered. Be unapologetic. Love…
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, gleamingStreaming, flaxen, waxen, knotted, polka dottedTwisted, beaded, braided, powdered, flowered and confettiedBangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied… “Hair” by the Cowsills (1968). Songwriters: Galt Mac Dermot…
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSIn this episode, hosts Jaronda Miller-Bryant, PhD and Yndia Lorick-Wilmot, PhD discuss Black hair and the Natural Hair Movement in terms of how it’s defined, its significance…
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSIn this first episode of the podcast series, we are introduced to our hosts Jaronda Miller-Bryant, PhD and Yndia Lorick-Wilmot, PhD as they discuss the significance of…
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, both the sung and unsung sheroes in history, culture and innovation. I particularly enjoy taking the time to pay homage to the women of color…
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 for Halloween, your yearbook page, for an office party, or a “fun” prank—is Intolerable. Full stop. I, too, am including you if you are a…
[Americans must] 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 February has been designated as Black History Month, a time in which the U.S. (and now the U.K, Canada and the Netherlands) annually…
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. My journey as a writer or storyteller is one that demonstrates how I, as a reader myself, am drawn to enduring stories that seek to…