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During a recent conversation with a dear friend, she told me, “You know, people will choose not to like you because they believe you are unworthy of things.”  She explained that their dislike is rarely based on evidence of your unworthiness. Instead, it often reflects their own fears about worthiness. This becomes especially complex when we talk about desirability. When a woman with a larger body, darker skin, or kinkier hair experiences social success or life milestones befo

The March of Dimes just released its latest Maternal and Infant Health Report Card — and once again the United States earned a D. That letter isn’t abstract. It is a life sentence: higher preterm births, entrenched racial inequities, and a system that fails families long before they reach the delivery room. It means too many people who are pregnant—especially Black women—are carrying pregnancies in a landscape where the odds are already stacked against our survival. We see ho

This morning, on my way to work, I felt the familiar tug of overwhelm. I had rushed through my already hurried routine, barely managing a...

The attacks on HBCU campuses are not random. They are meticulously calculated. And that fact alone should infuriate us all. What we are...

When we think about the common trauma responses—fight, flight, freeze, fawn (people pleasing), or shut down—we often mistakenly imagine...

As Black women in healing professions, we often carry a double weight. On one hand, our work is revered - people admire our insight,...

You and the love of your life have built something beautiful together. Maybe you’ve launched a thriving business side by side, or reached...

Like Lenny said, "Maybe you've never been in love like I've been in love. And maybe you've never felt the things that I've felt." Have...

I've been doing my daughter's hair since she was about seven or eight months old - basically since the moment I could safely put it in...

Moment of transparency… Something real, that’s been on my heart and mind, that not enough of us name out loud… I’ve been on the receiving...

There’s a very specific kind of discomfort that comes with trying to rekindle a friendship after a spat, a friend-breakup, or even one of...

The city of Fort Wayne has really been going through it this summer. It’s easy to label violence among teens as senseless, but when you...