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Finally, Illuminated by Fairy Tales

Taken from, ‘A Wrinkle in Times’ and a Personal Journey Toward Self-Love.  A few minutes after leaving a sold-out movie theater in New York City, I took to Twitter, indicating my inability to create a coherent message and a general hope to share my initial...

Put me on a first-class plane ride to Wakanda

In all honesty, I’ve been planning to blog about the phenomena, Black Panther, for a few weeks now. During opening weekend, I saw the movie in a theater full of equally as excited individuals as we entered the Marvel world and became immersed in the fictional land of...

Nobody Wins When the Family Feuds

Yes. Yes, this is about Jay Z. Due to the fact that it’s been a while since I’ve tried to put pen to paper, especially in an outlet where there’s a high-ish likelihood that someone will actually read my words, I’ve decided to set the stage of the semester with my...

The Freedom Tour Came Full Circle and I’m #Shook

For those who’ve chosen to be kind enough to read my blogs based on pure interest and not to satisfy course requirements, first thank you for reading and second, please consider this post a response to the academy’s recent trip to Washington, D.C. Centered on a theme...

Categorical Failure?

Click here for trigger warnings, a little bit of vulnerability, understanding failures, and recognizing new opportunities in life *smiley emoji*  This week’s post goes out to those who feel like they’ve given it their all and have yet to come out on top. To...

Rejection. Redemption. Rejection. Again.

“You can take away my freedom, you can take away my life, but you can’t take away my education.” An all too familiar phrase that my grandmother has consistently told me for as long as I can remember, the topic of education has and will always be one of the most...

Tape 1, Side A

Public Service Announcement: I’ve officially allowed the internet world to influence my decisions and although I have regrets, the intrinsic ability for a few tweets, Facebook ads, and conversations with avid binge watchers to influence my most recent television...

Revert to original

undo, revert, edit, restore The year is 2017 and somebody, somewhere is writing a dramatic Facebook post about an argument that they had with their best friend. Rather than a phone call or better yet, meeting up to resolve the issue, they go back and forth in the...

It’s not right, but it’s okay

— Ring the alarms, vulnerability alert — During the beginning of the spring semester I wrote a piece about how stress has the potential to cause real life health crises and more importantly, how it almost ruined my academic life. I talked about how...