28 DAYS OF BLACKNESS: BLACK WRITERS MATTER

This post is dedicated to the only bell that will keep ringing, bell hooks (1952-2021) Note to every Black writer whom will come across this space: Whether you blog, vlog, …

#BlockBlogsMatter Challenge-Week 13 (2021)

Ah, and here we go–CENTERING MINORITY VOICES. As a writer, as a minority writer, as a minority writer with a platform, I am a minority writer, who takes great happiness …

28 Days Of Blackness: A Love Letter To #BlackTikTok

Note: This list is not exhaustive! Who I list in the following piece are amazing, intelligent, semi-ratchet and now apart of my TikTok family! Follow them. Thank you. In the …

2020 Year In Review: WE ARE TURNING 4!

Thank you to my team of Shauncea Shotwell, Rebecca Quarles, Jayida Tyler, and Meisha Davis. Without you all, none of this will and would be possible. I thank you. This …

For The Little Black Boys That Had To Wait To See Themselves As Superheroes…

In my family, my father constantly quoted Obi Wan Kinobi to my mother: “I have been waiting for you Obi Wan. And now the circle is complete! When we met …

Black Girls Aren’t Allowed To Be Mad–They Are ‘Bitter’

This past semester, I graduated from my Alma Mater, UM-St. Louis (UMSL). At this university, I was blessed–yes, blessed!–to have taken my ENGL 3720: Literature After 1865. This class taught …

28 (29) Days Of Blackness: The Power Of The Black Writer

Chloe Ardelia Wolford, known the world as the dynamic Toni Morrison, instructs those whom read and write to ‘decolonize the canon.’ When I came across this quote, I sat with …

Do You Like Scary Stories? -Part 1

“Black history is Black horror.” -Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman This documentary was reviewed in February of this year. I invite you to re-read it, and then come right back. …

Not Today…

Admin Note: This piece uses strong language, and is frank with its candor concerning activism. It is important such pieces be written as it makes plain the frustration which sometimes …

On The Backside Of Vision

“I will come in, and leave, as power.” -JBHarris, 2019 Dear Mrs. Harris: Oracle. Teacher. Voice. Author. Blogger. I am proud of you, Sis! Look at you! Writing, and schmoozing, …