By: Kayla McKinney What happens when students attend a large PWI in the mid-west whose pride is directly connected with athletics? They go to...
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Unapolgetically Me: The Struggles of Being A Blaxican Skater Girl
By: Denise Nichole Andrews The bell rings for lunch. I don’t know where to sit. Everyone else seems to find their friends but I just moved here...
Loving Your Skin Regardless of the Challenges You Face
By: Toun Cole I never felt the need to be cautious about the color of my skin. I was just doing my own thing but as I got older, and started putting...
Diary of a Dark Skin Girl
By: Stephanie Babatunde _______________________________________ March 28, 2007 Dear Diary, I am still dark skin. I’ve been scrubbing my face really...
Feminism: The Journey of The Black Woman To Equality
By: Azekwoh Anthony History is full of them, people who challenged the system, people who changed the system. These people didn’t see the world as...
Natural Hair, Don’t Care: Learning to Embrace My Real Self
By: Kai Gould When I first decided to go natural, I was in my junior year of high school. I made this decision because my hair was really unhealthy...
Stop Holding Their Hand:Why I Set Boundaries with My White Friends as a Measure of Self-Preservation
By: Brianna Little College is, for the most part, an enriching environment where anyone can find their niche. Despite being one of the oldest...
Why I Dress the Way I Do: The Real Corporate America
By: Charlene Chinn It’s 5:30 am and the workday begins. After I take time to pray and meditate the next thing I focus on…what to wear? Sometimes...
From California to Alabama: My first Time Confronting the Confederate Flag
By: Kyla Evans My name is Kyla. I am from Pasadena, CA, a city right outside of Los Angeles (very much a part of the busy city life). I was born to a...
Why Consent Shouldn’t Be a “Grey Area”
By: Ali Harris-Saunders The other night I had a heated discussion with a male friend over the topic of consent. It was mind boggling that here in...
