By Didan Ashanta Each year, on the 3rd Monday of October, Jamaica celebrates it’s national heroes. The first of these great leaders and liberators was Marcus Garvey, and while he was alive, he felt it necessary to point out his people that they should be proud of their melanated skins: “The Black skin is not a…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Kim of In July 2008, during the recession, I was laid off from the company where I’d put in 4 years as a travel consultant. I was pregnant with our second child, and our first was in daycare. I had mixed emotions about being laid off, and remaining in the sales industry became more…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Sundi When I had my second child nearly a year after my first I was filled with trepidation, because I didn’t know how I was going to manage with two young children. After a while, though, I slowly got the hang of things and while it was hard, it was doable. When I found…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Didan Ashanta Let’s begin this little heart-to-heart with a confession. I’ll go first ? I dropped out of school. To be more specific: I dropped out of kindergarten! No, I’m not joking. I started going to school when I was 2½ years old (after being taught basic early childhood literacy skills at home) – but,…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Didan Ashanta Let’s begin this little heart-to-heart with a confession. I’ll go first ? I dropped out of school. To be more specific: I dropped out of kindergarten! No, I’m not joking. I started going to school when I was 2½ years old (after being taught basic early childhood literacy skills at home) – but,…
➠ Continue ReadingBy DeAnna Sexual abuse. This is not a topic that most people like even thinking about, much less talking about. It is estimated that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will experience some form of sexual abuse before their 18th birthday. To put this in perspective, it means in a classroom of…
➠ Continue ReadingIntroduce yourself! D: Hello everyone! I’m DeAnna, and I’m writing you from the beautiful state of Colorado. I have lived here for the past 23 years, but I originally hail from the great state of Texas. I am a stay-at home mother, and have been since a few months before my son was born. In…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Alicia Barnes of LiciaBobesha.com Most mothers in the U.S. work outside the home, which means if they’re breastfeeding, they’re probably pumping. When I was about to return to work, I was intimidated by pumping. I knew that pumping wasn’t as efficient as the baby. I knew that pumping instead of nursing my baby directly could…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Vanessa H. My husband and I moved to North Carolina from California a couple months ago. We’ve finally moved all our stuff into our apartment, and now that the dust has settled, I’ve found that my days home alone with our daughter (and barky dog) can be, well, pretty lonely. I hate to say…
➠ Continue ReadingEducation. It is an issue that I’m already researching, worrying about, borderline obsessing over. Because I’m raising a black boy in America, and I know that he can’t afford NOT to be educated, and educated WELL. Enter the trailer for the new documentary American Promise. It showed up on my Facebook timeline, I watched it…
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