Laughing Through The Pain

August 5, 2021 Staff Writer

My family and I like to re-watch In Living Color sketches, and it’s always the same handful: Jamie Foxx as Prince, Kim Wayans as Crystal Waters, and Tommy Davidson as Michael Jackson. You should just […]

How To Train Ya Neighbor

May 21, 2021 Staff Writer

In the year following the onset of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, 2020 A.D., Union Station of Washington, DC—generally teeming with people going out of or on their way in—sat as a hollowed shell of its former […]

Vicarious Victors

May 1, 2021 Staff Writer

When I learned that mental health was one of the topics for this series, I didn’t know if I could write about it in first person. I’d subconsciously limited mental health concerns to things like […]

Big Wrongs, Big Words

April 22, 2021 Staff Writer

I have always been captivated by big, grand, absolutist words. Words that name clear edges or hard stops or lines crossed—the finite, unequivocal, forbidden, unforgivable, irrevocable. Words that evoke how something is clear or clear-cut […]

Playing the Rigged Game

April 16, 2021 Staff Writer

The worst feeling in the world is not belonging. This homeless feeling of being exposed to the elements yet pressed into a box is the plight of the Black woman. What I love about Sula is how […]

Not Me

April 8, 2021 Staff Writer

“Hey! Before you go, do you mind if I ask you a question?” said the interviewer; the irony of the question about a question hung in the air. “Not at all,” I replied. “What was […]

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