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Today, August 6th marks the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. And voters are more vulnerable than ever to discrimination at and even getting to the polls. In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Since then, states and localities around the country have been making changes that…

I was watching “What Happened, Miss Simone?” Nina Simone was saying that freedom is having no fear. I was like, wow…freedom is having no fear?! I realized that I am not free because my entire life has been shabbily wrapped in fear. A fear of myself, a fear of others, a fear of my present, and…

Sundays are sometimes the loneliest. Waking up on a lazy Sunday just to roll over to an empty space is tough. During the week I can focus on my work, but those leisure mornings when I don’t have any obligations is when being single sucks. Having someone to come home to or share time and…

Yesterday I was scrolling through Instagram and came upon the conspiracy theory that Sandra Bland was already deceased in her mug shot. Upon reading this my stomach dropped,  as if the situation wasn’t already bad enough. It shook me. I then felt a real fear of leaving the house. What seemed like a routine traffic…

Ugh, Michael Rappaport, I loathe him. But anyway,  I was at a work event today and a guy I’d met at a mixer previously decided to approach me all like “ayyyyyye, gurl how you doin da-day?” I’m like…err, I distinctly remember him not being all slangy with me before so what has changed and what into…

  “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead” – Nelson Mandela What are you doing to change the world? Your country? Your State? Your City? Your Neighborhood? From…

I have been watching this great show called Shuga Naija. It follows the lives of young people in Lagos, Nigeria just trying to live and love. There was a character who was in a relationship with a woman who was HIV positive and he was HIV negative. He decided to stay in the realtionship with…

This is just another example of treating the symptom and not the cause. Ok, so that flag won’t fly at the capitol, but that is just one place. The flag will still fly at people’s homes and businesses. The flag will still be painted on the side of buildings and trucks. The flag will still…

I was watching a Dormtainment podcast titled “Do Men Get Lonely” and it came to my attention that  a couple of the guys were equating loneliness for being horny. IMO, they are two totally different things. Horny is a physical need. It is a longing for sexual gratification. The state of being horny brings about…

I receive email updates from my local NAACP branch and today I receive a surprising copy of a letter to the editor of the Sacramento Bee from Alice Huffman, President of the California NAACP, in regard to Rachel Dolezal’s appropriation of our race and culture.  Read on… Dear Editor: Erika Smith’s opening lines in today’s…