A candid response to intimate partner violence and abuse Last week as I scrolled through my Instagram feed, I stumbled upon a gut-wrenching post. This post featured text alongside three images: 1. a white football player in a Seahawks jersey with an intimidating physique and long hair, 2. an attractive woman with soft features and blonde highlights, 3. a…

Sankofa is expressed as a mythical bird with its feet firmly planted forward while its head is turned backwards to fetch an egg. Its stance symbolizes wisdom in learning from the past in order to ensure a strong future. As we turn the page from 2020 to 2021: This post…

Undoubtedly, 2020 has been the most grueling and emotionally draining year of my life. New York City was the world epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in April. On the 14th of that month, my grandmother entered eternal life as a resident of Downtown Brooklyn Nursing & Rehabilitation Center where she…

“I saw where she laid on the floor and died,” said Tamika Palmer, in reference to her 26-year-old daughter who worked as an emergency medical technician. In an interview for The New York Times Presents, Ms. …

Mr. Abiodun Oyewole would always recite that line for us young poets, now I finally know what it means — first love, first heartache I guess they’re synonymous my college boyfriend and I were together for two years upon graduation. we separated, but it wasn’t over anything irreconcilable. and, we continued to orbit around each other. so, I was ecstatic when he said that he wanted to be in a…

A Letter to Mr. Medaria Arradondo, Chief of Police, Minneapolis Police Dept. — August 4, 2020 Dear Mr. Medaria Arradondo, My name is Dawnn Anderson. I am 28 years young, and I am a proud black woman in America. Two months have passed and I am still lamenting the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who suffocated under the weight of…