In an effort to be politically correct, we have sacrificed being historically correct. Instead of force-fixing racism, it has the converse affect because it assumes that we, Black people, of all cultural backgrounds do not have our own stories and rich history that needs to be told and that are just as engaging as the White ones we see.

Dating for Black women comes with its own special set of circumstances and obstacles. We can find love, but if we’re not careful or intentional in spotting red flags, we can also find more pain than most. Read carefully, so that you don’t have to pay the toll like I did.

Out of the myriad of the things I have tried, there are a few things that have maintained consistent: Ayurvedic practices, Rice water, and Tea. Each provides substantial benefits to my hair strands and has contributed to my tail-bone length hair.

I call myself a Christ-follower, and not a Christian…Most of my life I’ve heard “Remember the Reason for the Season,” or “Keep the Christ in Christmas”…you know the rhetoric. And I largely ascribed to this train of thought.

Until I took my first religion class in college…

You know what's real?…the jarring realization that White is no longer the standard of desirability; it is White-adjacent or racially ambiguous. And having curly hair is part of that standard.

We’ve grown up as baby heirs because White Supremacy raised us, and hair is a more potent indicator of race than skin color.

In other words, Kinky hair is the only thing exclusively indicative of African roots, and it can oftentimes afford a dark-skinned person with light-skinned privilege in many parts of the word.

As a Black educator, it is imperative that we intentionally incorporate Black mythos into the same units and on the same level as classics like The Odyssey. Here is why…

In discovering the Orishas, I found that they never truly left us. We can find their fingerprints all over Black Femininity, specifically in the dances of HBCU Dance Teams and in the work of Beyoncé.

However you feel about this holiday, you cannot deny that for many people, it is a big deal…As a single woman over thirty, I know the feeling of being left out, of the self-pity “why not me’s” that inevitably follow Valentine’s Day. But I made a decision years ago that allowing this day to dictate how I feel about myself is not an option.