I knew I’d Start Somewhere, I Just Did Not Know Where, I Had To Look Back To See The Growth — “Your past self is talking to you.” “I Know.” “Are you going to answer?” “Am I alive?” “Technically.” “Then I’m Answering.” This is a conversation I have with myself every single day. And what’s worse is that it’s the same conversation I have with all the people who thought they…

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It Forces Us To Step Up Our Game And Focuses Our Aim — I have been included in an amazing group of writers who call themselves simply Writers and Editors of Color. They do not have a website, but each of them combined (forty-eight and counting), have an interconnected platform of thousands. We follow each other on social media, we support each other’s…

This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. — ***TRIGGER WARNING*** Please read with Caution For most of my life, I have been chained by white supremacist abusers who raped me specifically because I am from a marginalized community and they thought wrongly, that they’d get away with it. From the time I was five years old I’ve been getting raped, but it wasn’t until…

White People Cannot Say The N Word Even During A Song — Lil John Snap Your FingersThis is one of the few songs that aren’t about who is a better rapper or man, and I wonder often if they even remember how the art of battling during music got started because today someone asked if we…

I Have Some Advice And if You’re A #Writer You Need This Info — Once upon a time, it didn’t matter what your writing looked like. People were so consumed with reading, that they’d read anything just to get their hands on words. A large part of this is due to the Black Plague when they burned books thinking that the pages of the…

Saying goodbye to gang life, meant that I was saying goodbye to a lot of good people who were making mistakes I didn’t want to make. It was a lonely process filled with shaming, guilting, gaslighting, and worse, name-calling. For a long, while I believed the things they said about…

Are You An Activist? Or Are You Just Branding Yourself an Activist? — In case you didn’t know, you don’t get rich by being an activist. …

From China to America, People are Protesting…Why? Because They Are The Hope We Need in This World — In the days of the Civil War Movement when Martin Luther King Jr was killed, I very much imagine there was at least one white person who said “that’ll shut them up.” …