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Onyekachi Akalonu
An Ode to The New Girl in Ms. Ramsey’s Class
You came into Ms. Ramsey’s math class A chestnut face full of braces and vibrant colored beads in neat braids you probably sat between your mother’s legs the night before anxious about your first day of...
Love is Waiting
I’m here, waiting to be recovered, waiting to be restored. You were taken from the dark continent, betrayed, transported and enslaved, and shamed. Men disgraced, women demeaned, children disregarded. And in the process...
Berena Hughes
Super Bowl Preview
Thirty-two teams started this journey with dreams of glory. After six months of competition, only two remain. The Cincinnati Bengals emerged from the AFC and the Los Angeles Rams who conquered the NFC will do battle for...
Justin Walker
Self Esteem Makeover
Bathe your body with bath salts of self-reflection. Wash your hair of unnecessary excess. Trim the split ends of indecisiveness so confidence can grow evenly and strong. Use a pumice stone to gently exfoliate the...
Goldman Sachs – Helping to Grow Female Black Entrepreneurship
In the recent post, Hidden Figures: The Secret is Out!, I featured an incredible story of a family of Black women and their business successes. McKissack and McKissack is the outgrowth of the oldest minority/women-owned...
June Coxson
Toxic Positivity: Through the Eyes of a Burned Out Millennial
For some, 2022 brings a new positive outlook, a new workout routine, new opportunities, and new friends. Yet, while those things sound great, juggling it all can quickly become overwhelming and before you know it, you...
Milaka Saddler
New Year, New Me: The Trap of New Years Resolutions to Self Improvement
We’ve all been there. The clock strikes twelve, we scream “happy new year” with loved ones and familiar faces around. We toast to a new year and a new sense of self. Slipping into our beds, too tired to...
Eshe Ukweli
NFL Championship Weekend Preview
Many times in our lives we throw out the word “greatest.” We use it, in my opinion, too often and in a way that the word has lost a lot of its meaning. So, when I tell you that this past weekend was the...
Languishing, Hope, and Everything in Between: How Millennials and 20-Somethings Will Survive the Pandemic in 2022
A few weeks ago, HBO Max finally dropped the second season of Euphoria, a show widely discussed on social media and long-awaited by millennials far and wide. The mere fact that the second season took about two and half...
