Day of the Dead + Saint’s Day + Oya
Driving to the store yesterday, I could’ve sworn I saw a ghost flit across the street and into the woods. It also happened to be Halloween, so I had to
Lorenzo Dow Turner, The Father of Gullah Studies
Written by K.Nicole Parker Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust was released in 1991 but set in 1921, depicting the struggle between those trying to preserve the old ways and the
More Black Folk Need to Know Phillis Wheatley
Written by: Breanna (@tenlibras) and Trelani Michelle Phillis Wheatley remains relatively unknown, despite her major accomplishments. Named after the ship she arrived on from West Africa when she was 7
When the Democrats and Republicans Switched Ideas
Folk who love to argue with black folk love to say that Republicans ended slavery. (Those folk include black folk too.) While that’s a true statement, it’s also a misleading
Anthropologists Ain’t Gotta Go To College or Quit Their Job
“I might not know how to use 34 words where 3 will do, but that does not mean that I don’t know what I’m talking about.” -Drylongso, John Langston Gwaltney
Great Migration, Pt. 2: Systematic Oppression Back Then and Now
by Diamond Afeni “It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.”― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns Systematic oppression, at its core,
The Great Migration: When Black Folks Left the South
by Diamond Afeni Beside the slave trade, black peoples’ largest migration in this country began in the mid 1915s and ended in the 1970s. Before that, according to the United
Vera Mae Green got me going to a Quaker meeting and changing my wardrobe
That whole Bohemian style that’s really popular these days–Vera Mae Green was already on it. Although it’s trendy now, some folks are just naturally drawn to eclectic patterns and colors.