The journey of becoming a transgender or gender non-conforming individual is difficult, especially for Black individuals. For many that have transitioned, what they knew about transgender or gender non-conforming people along with how they were viewed by society...
Picture yourself walking into a Black-owned beauty salon in the mid-2000s. The smell of Blue Magic grease and hot combs are a welcoming scent. You sit in the waiting area, thinking about how sore your scalp may be after this. Then you picture your freshly done hair...
The creation and cultivation of Black culture is one of the most compelling stories of our beauty and resilience in the modern world. An integral piece of this story is the storyteller. Black media has evolved over years while keeping one centralized goal in mind:...
“The time for a Negro magazine, the time for a Negro Digest or an Ebony or JET, had come and nothing could stop it if-and it’s a big if – the idea could find a man or a woman who willing to do anything or almost anything, to make the time come.” -John H. Johnson John...
Ebony Magazine was founded by the late John H. Johnson in 1945. Johnson, a prominent Black entrepreneur, developed Ebony with the intent for the publication to be modeled after Life magazine, but for a Black audience. Under his company, Johnson Publishing, he...
“I know what I have to do, and I’m going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I’ll come out a winner, and it doesn’t matter what anyone else does.” – Florence Griffith Joyner Florence Griffith Joyner aka Flo-Jo is one of my inspirations for more reasons than...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama Who better exemplifies being “the change that we seek” than the very first Black president of...
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -James Baldwin Change is defined as something that produces a different position, course, or direction. In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, I felt it was...
Undoubtedly, the University of Alabama men’s basketball team is continuing to elevate and make their presence known in the NCAA Division I conference. The team has come from ranked below 25 in 2019, to ranked top 25, to number six, and now winning the SEC...
Due to the pandemic, businesses and families around the world have been affected economically. The sudden spread of COVID-19 and the panic that followed greatly impacted non-essential businesses as well as small businesses. In recent years, the spirit of...
