Black History Month According to a Haitian American
byMy name is Luc A. Gabriel and I am a Haitian-American from Philadelphia, PA. To me, Black History Month is not solely a time…
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Black History Month According to a Nigerian-American
byMy name is Chinyere Erondu. I am a Nigerian-American from Abia State, Nigeria and born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. To me, Black History Month means…
Monifa Edwards
byA Devotional on Finishing the Job NPR’s Code Switch podcast recently featured a powerful two part series from School Colors, a podcast about how…
Behind the Myth That African American Children are “Lazy”
by“When I get home from work, he hasn’t done anything. The house is still dirty, and he’s laying around playing that stupid game. No…
NASA’s Hidden Figures Helped Us Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before
byEditor’s Note: This repost from 2016 is in honor of one of the hidden figures of NASA, Katherine Johnson (August 26, 1918-February 24, 2020)….
The Best Kept Secret
byOne of the truly “best kept secrets in town” is that you don’t have to be sick. In America, nine out of ten deaths…
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
byA Devotional on Being Seen She has probably, unbeknownst to us, always been one of the “adored ones.” On special assignment in the United…
Amelia Boynton Robinson
byA Devotional About Preparedness In the acclaimed movie “Selma”, directed by the extraordinary Ava Duverney, the gifted actress, Lorraine Toussaint, portrays the unshakable civil…
The Trauma in My Veins: Transgenerational Trauma And the Need for Black History Month
by“How frightening is the past that awaits us.” Antonin Slonimski Few questions spark critical self-analysis like the question: What happened to you? Depending on…
Miss Mary Hamilton
byA Devotional About Names Names mean so much within the cultures of the African Diaspora. Our names may be “monikers that have a history…