Smiles and laughter echoed through the living room on Christmas morning as my family opened presents and listened to my dad’s corny jokes. My grandmother sat peacefully in her rocking chair watching...

Friendships have always had a big impact on my life. I’m the oldest on both sides of my family, the oldest cousin, oldest niece, oldest granddaughter and oldest sibling. In my family, I have an awkward...

In middle school, I was known as the shy, quiet girl who nobody talked to. I created my own little shell, and I kept my distance because I felt as if I did not fit in. I sat by myself at lunch and isolated...

African booty scratcher. Why do you talk white? You’re pretty for a dark skin girl. Is that your real hair?  Every microaggression chips away at my mental stability and builds racial trauma that...

For Black people, hair defines a large part of our culture and identity. Dating back to slavery, enslavers forced women to cover their hair which signified inferiority to their masters. In the early 1900s,...

We survived one of the most mentally straining years in history. 2020 became a domino effect for disaster with wildfires covering the earth, the fright of a possible World War lll, COVID-19 and quarantine,...

A traditional election includes election results on Election Day, however, the 2020 election proved as anything but traditional. As controversy rises about the legitimacy of the election, tensions grow...

The National Basketball Association came back from a four month long hiatus on July 30. Each team in playoff contention played 10 games to secure their respective seeds. After two weeks of games every...

Not a day goes by that we don’t hear about COVID-19, racial injustice and the wildfires. We sit at the table only to embark on political conversations, as women protest in the streets for the issues...

Spanish corridos play in the background as my family pulls out of the driveway on the way to my dad’s next work gig. I look out the window onto the asphalt of I-20 and remember all of the jobs my dad...