Travel Fearlessly, Spend Wisely: A Thrifty Guide to Travel for Black Women
Many solo Black women travelers strive for new adventures to feed their wanderlust while minding their budget. However, solo travel can...
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Perdita Patrice
- Oct 12
Donyale Luna, “The Bluest Eye,” and the Specter of White Supremacy
The real story of the documentary is that Luna didn’t want to be Black and did everything she could to distance herself from Black people.
Perdita Patrice
- Aug 25
Sex and Dating at The End of The World
It’s easy to feel all is lost when it comes to finding healthy relationships.
Perdita Patrice
- Jun 23
Sometimes… It’s You: How Anti-Black Beliefs are Upheld in the Black Community
When I hear adult Black people discuss how their Blackness was policed as children by other children, I rarely hear them speak about why...
Adam Lynch
- May 5
Rising Tuition Stalks Students as SCOTUS Kills College Debt Relief
The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning announced (at the 27:10 mark of the linked video) that Mississippi...
Aaron Talley
- Dec 10, 2021
Lotus
There was a woman born from a Lotus Her heart was golden, deep as the ocean And then this one man, he came and broke it ‘Til it was open,...
Sykina Butts
- Nov 5, 2021
The World We Live In
For November, we are featuring a short story about a girl at an important moment in her journey to womanhood. Despite early missteps and...
Tatiana McInnis
- Oct 8, 2021
Trawling in Silences: Finding My Uncle, From Pandemic-to-Pandemic
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua At the end of 2019, I quit a job that did not serve me for the first time and moved back home with my parents...
The Lighthouse
- Jul 2, 2021
Where Can a Black Girl Feel Safe? Who’s to Say?
Where Can a Black Girl Feel Safe? Who’s to Say?
Haile Cole
- Jun 4, 2021
Tell A Black Girl’s (COVID) Story
“Tell A Black Girl’s (COVID) Story” is a photo essay that seeks to tell a COVID story through the eyes of Black girls. The essay is part...
The Lighthouse
- Mar 3, 2021
Black Power Revisited, Revised, Fried, Dyed & Laid to the Side
Black women have performed historically in the United States political system, even when it was codified into law that we could not.
The Lighthouse
- Feb 5, 2021
Sick and Tired: Fannie Lou Hamer & the Cost of America’s Sickness
As Stacey Abrams was hailed the savior of American democracy, I was thinking a lot about Fannie Lou Hamer’s fight for Black voting rights.
The Lighthouse
- Jan 8, 2021
Losing During a Time of Loss
As stats for cases and deaths grew, COVID’s impact on my friends and family revealed the human impact behind the numbers.
The Lighthouse
- Aug 30, 2019
On the Road with RBG: Learning Tour Reflections
Last month, I was lucky enough to snag a seat on the Reese|Brooks|Gilbert Learning Tour.
The Lighthouse
- Jan 30, 2019
Black Women in Politics, Pt. III | No Take Backsies
The more people are represented in the room where decisions are made, the more likely their interpretations will be varied
The Lighthouse
- Nov 6, 2018
Black Women in Politics, Pt. II | Declaratives Turned Queries
The prevailing notion that social problems are the direct result of programs, policies and directives of the existing governmental/legal str
The Lighthouse
- Oct 30, 2018
Black Women In Politics, Pt. I | An Inelegant System
Black Women In Politics, Pt. I | An Inelegant System
The Lighthouse
- Sep 4, 2018
The Work of Work: An Examination of Workers’ Rights in the Mississippi Delta
There were 17 families still living in the dilapidated Southside Garden Apartments the property was no longer fit for human beings to live.
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