Undie-Fined
Myles Walker
Eshe Ukweli
June Coxson
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 WalkerSelf 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...
Berena HughesGoldman 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...
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 SaddlerNew 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...
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...
Hidden Figures: The Secret is Out!
One day I was watching the morning news. One of the segments of the program featured something about John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City. It wasn’t the airport itself that caught my eyes and ears, it was the...
NFL Divisional Round Predictions
Last week I made the pledge to finish this postseason above .500 (getting over half my predictions right). Well, I couldn’t have gotten off to a better start going a perfect 6 for 6. So, if you won a few bets...
5 Habits We As Black Men Should Adopt in 2022
The new year is a time for many that represent new opportunities for growth in all aspects of life. We have another 365 days to look forward to bettering ourselves. As a community, Black people look to make further...
Onyekachi AkalonuNew Year, No Fear
In this third year of plague and pandemonium, many of us are asking, “When will it end?” Vaccine rollouts, periodically falling case counts, and the specious prospects of “stopping the spread,”...
NFC Wild Card Preview
In the last edition we focused on the AFC, but now it’s the NFC’s turn. The Green Bay Packers secured the number one seed and thus won’t be playing a part this week. However, we’re still treated...
NFL Week 18 Winners and Losers
The regular season has come to its conclusion, and what a finish it was! We were treated to three overtime games in which all three had massive playoff implications. One of those three games almost ended up being the...
AFC Wild Card Preview
Eighteen teams have fallen and only fourteen remain. That can only mean that Super Wild Card weekend is upon us, as twelve of those fourteen teams will do battle to survive another week. Since Green Bay and Tennessee...
NFL Week 17 Winners and Losers
The regular season is rapidly reaching its conclusion as there is only one week left. Two playoff spots remain unclaimed in the AFC with five teams fighting for them. In the NFC there is only one golden ticket left for...
Urgent Care in DC – The Good and The Bad
Most of us have heard—or have had—our fair share of emergency room horror stories: waiting for hours and hours to be triaged by busy ER physicians and nurses, only to be sent home with no treatment or insufficient...
Sara MBlack in Blue
From New York to Los Angeles, police departments across the country are consistently accused of racism. Although historically white police precincts have been slowly integrating over the past few decades, disparities...
NFL Week 16 Winners and Losers
Week 16 saw five more teams secure their place in this year’s playoffs. The five teams join the Green Bay Packers, who clinched last week, and now that means only eight spots remain. With two weeks left to go in...
