If you were to go back in time and ask my high school friends or teachers how they'd describe me, they would say I'm funny, spirited, and weird. This is the facade I created to hide how much I was hurting on the inside. But...
I've been talking to God a lot, recently. Lately, I've been stressed to insurmountable amounts. Not only am I still on my job hunt and studying for my GRE exam this month, but my current part time job has been stressful, and to top it...
Five years ago, I was finishing my senior year of high school. I had been avidly checking the mailbox for my college acceptance letters; one in particular from Maryland. After walking home from school like any other day, I checked the mailbox to find a...
Sigh. So. The day has come. I've been thinking about this day since January. "Where will I be? Will I have a special somebody? Will I be alone? Will I care?" And after spending much of my time thinking about it, the answer is: YES....
I wasn't aware of the Oprah Winfrey Network's Light Girls documentary until I saw the conversation buzz on Twitter and Facebook. Surprisingly, I read a lot of ignorant comments about the doc-- the main critique being: why do light skin girls need a documentary about...
I, like many of my fellow December graduates, are in a bit of a rut. We're at a time where we're figuring out what we want to do next or how we're going to get to where we want to be next. And the cold...