By: Alyssa Lorraine Sometimes, to be a black girl in high school was to be a dimmed light urging to...
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I’ve Heard It All Before: Four Phrases I’m Tired of Hearing as a Single Black Woman
By: Shaunese Johnson “Don’t you want to settle down?” “It seems like you have been single...
How My Life Changed After Doing “The Big Chop”
By: Candace McDuffie Despite all of the thoughts surrounding ‘The Big Chop,’ or...
Little Black Girls Need ‘Lemonade’, Too
By: Kristen N. Pender What a time to be both a Black girl and alive. Variations of this line have...
When Wallflowers Bloom
By: Danielle Barrett-Powell Black is beautiful. We’ve all heard it; seen it plastered across...
Soul Ties
By: Cynthia Walker Love is a simple word that carries a great deal of weight. It can either bring...
Why I Hated Being African While Growing Up
By: Annette Bizimana Growing up, the first few years of my life were rough for me and my family...
How My Experience with a Racist Teacher Forced Me to Learn About Racism at a Young Age
By: Khrystiana Howell Growing up in a small Illinois town that lacked diversity, being a minority...
My Dual Heritage: Growing up as an African and Caribbean Girl
By: Jasmine Lee-Zogbessou As a young black woman, identity and culture are very important to me...
Overcoming Sexual Assult and Learning to Love Myself Again
By: C.A. Cantwell Before I begin I would like to give a trigger warning, this will contain rape...