Headline Roundup: 9/27 – 10/3
Trap Queens and Freak Hoes: On Exclusivity in the Carefree Black Girl Movement / ForHarriet (4 min. read) This piece presented an interesting perspective on Carefree Black Girls that I haven’t seen or considered: […]
Category Archives: Reclaiming Black
Young, Black, & Woke: 6 Things I Wish I Knew as a Black Student Activist
No lie, I’m a little nostalgic from all of the back-to-school posts I’ve been seeing. On the various social media platforms I see posts from budding Black student activists and […]
The Black American Dream: A Hip-Hopera
The idea for a series on Hip-Hop came amidst a bunch of incidents that presented the obvious need to discuss it: A group of white fraternity members were caught on […]
3 Reasons Why Non-Black People Shouldn’t Say The N-Word
To cut straight to the point, no think piece needed, here are 3 reasons why non-Black people shouldn’t say the N-Word: 1. You’re 2. Not 3. Black Well that was […]
Keep Your Hands Out of My Cultural Cookie Jar: Cultural Appropriation & Safe Spaces
Different cultures have their own boundaries when it comes to respecting the physical space a person occupies, whether it refers to how close someone gets or in a space like […]
The Festival that Brought Black Love & Black Power to San Francisco
Black Liberation seems to be getting more difficult to define as the days through the New Civil Rights Movement continue on and more and more Black people face publicized oppression […]
Spkng In Tongues with the Young, Black, & Gifted
Ron Blasingame, 26, Ohio Favorite brands that are not his own: 10 Deep & Ohio Against the World Favorite piece he owns: Black & red Ralph Lauren flannel Favorite piece he […]
How to… Create a More Conscious You
I think it’s still early enough in 2015 to create those “new year, new me” habits. I honestly don’t think you need the January 1st landmark to engage and sustain new […]
Identity in the Black Community, Part III
An individual’s struggle with self-definition is normal—it’s a part of growing up, natural to the “human condition.” The identity struggles that people of color experience, more specifically members of the […]
Identity in the Black Community, Part II.
“I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I do believe in equality. Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label […]
