What if your identity was based partly by the color of your skin? What if that skin tone was used as a negative? What if it was made to make you appear as a threat? What if it made people lower their expectations of what you are capable of or your worth as a person? […]
Read MoreDefinition: The fact of being who or what a person is. For the year of 2023 we will use a theme of Identity as we read, watch, learn, grow, and experience life together. We encourage you to start with yourself, what makes you, you? How has your family, your childhood, your life experiences, relationships, culture, […]
Read Moreby: Amanda Hughley In June of 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, officially making Juneteenth a federal holiday. At that point, many, especially non-African Americans, in the United States did not know what Juneteenth was or that it even existed. Although most states recognized the day, some even as an […]
Read MoreSymbolism Last year we shared the story behind the years and how the animal order was determined. This year the animal is Tiger and the element is water. Water is symbolic of a prosperous year and the Tiger is a symbol of strength, exorcising evils, and braveness. Things to expect in this year… About big […]
Read MoreA white man walks into a church and commits mass murder (Dylan Roof). Another man goes to a grocery store and commits mass murder (Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa). A third man walks into a school and commits mass murder (too many names). A white man shows up to a rally with a gun across his […]
Read MoreBy: Lindsay McDonnell, MSW I grew up in a predominantly white town where racism was not hidden and also denied. I distinctly remember inflammatory and directly racist names being cast upon the white kids in school who dressed in a certain way deemed Black: sagging pants, brands of clothes, haircut. Confederate flags in pick up […]
Read MoreBy: Marques Rice, Esq. Imagine that I asked you to draw a picture of a tree. You find a pencil or pen and do your best to transform blank paper into your artistic representation of a tree. Big leaves, maybe some apples or a nest. Now, imagine that you show me the picture only to […]
Read MoreA few years back when I was auditing a class I was told the term Sankofa means go back and get it. It was further explained that we are to learn from this history and how to apply it today. Yesterday I got a new alert on my phone that read “The internet might be […]
Read MoreBy Amanda Hughley I remember it like it was yesterday: “This is so stupid, no one cares.” These were the words of my classmate in my junior year of high school after hearing the “Black History Month Fact of the Day” during our morning announcements. It was both cringeworthy and embarrassing. My emotions vacillated (and […]
Read MoreBy: Amy Cheng & Lindsay McDonnell To me Chinese New Year is like Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Year all rolled into one massive celebration!! It is a time to celebrate my family, spend days cooking, and eat certain traditional food. But before we dig into the family feast, we would clean our house, visit our […]
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