GEORGE WHO?

On February 26, 2012, a seventeen year old Black boy named Trayvon Martin left his father’s and finances home at The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford Florida wearing a black hoodie and gray jeans. Trayvon was headed to the local 7-11 to purchase a Arizona drink for himself and skittles for his father’s girlfriend …

Mona Lisa

Sweet brownskin with your sweet brown skin You’ve been through so much, and you've kept it all bottled in I’ve traveled amongst the stars and haven’t found any akin To the heartfelt delicacy of your pure brown skin Within your brown skin I begin to inspire things I just know I cannot let anyone have …

Broken Dreams

Trrrrrfffrrt As of right now, I have no idea.

Sweet Lotus

Sweet lotus, You are a divine emanation of grace, poise, and class. Your heartbeat is like the ocean, forever flowing from a source unseen, an endless stream of love and dedication for self-preservation. Your skin is radiant, constantly glowing, its deep pigment shines beautifully amongst the sun. Your hair defies gravity, its supernatural. Your curves …

Dear Black Girl

    Dear Black Girl, One day I was in a room. The room was filled with others that looked nothing like us. But I blended with them so seamless that they believed I was just like them. I hid my blackness so well that they began to speak out loud right in front of …

Maintaining Imani (Faith)

"I want you to know that I do know God, I just have a different perspective of what God is than most people. What I know to be God has no gender, no religion, or no chosen people. It is a nature so powerful that we truly cannot name it, the most descriptive word, will …

Exposing a Taboo

According to the Merriam- Webster Dictionary, the word Taboo is defined as "banned on the grounds of morality".  A social construct is a belief made up by society , these beliefs do not exist based on fact, but are simply created by human interactions. Ask yourself, what truly makes some one a woman?  A man? The differences …

When Black Boys Cry

This is dedicated to every Black boy in the world. To every Black boy who is scared to cry, to every Black boy missing, to every Black boy in prison, to every Black boy who transitioned to another realm of life due to gun violence, to all the Black boys who survived and became Black …

The (Mis) Education of the African Mind in America

             The captivating global phenomenon of White Supremacy has systematically and catastrophically mentally plagued, and challenged the mind of Africans internationally. White Supremacy is the belief that White people are the dominant and superior race on earth, and all other non-White races are inferior in all subject matters. Not all …

Spirituality

Throughout my quest for divineness I have become obsessed with spiritual freedom. When I suffered from religion, I believed there was a man in the sky watching my every move, I believed I was living my life because of him, I felt like many Christians, forever in debt to Jesus Christ. Spirituality is the acceptance …