I will be 40 in two-weeks. Arriving at a time in my life where I am no longer considered “young” but I am still not considered “old”. It...

I have lived in the North for 29 years of my young life. By North I mean Newark, NJ, also known as “Brick City”. The largest city in the...

Ten minutes before noon I'm standing stoically in a carpeted hallway surrounded by an ever-rising sea of somebody's children. The noise,...

Growing up as a dancer, I became so accustomed to seeing women dance in crop tops or sports bras like it was no big deal. As the years...

As an individual who self identifies as Black-American I used to find myself cringing when having a conversation with some Afro-Latinos,...