I have many enemies One happens to be the inner me I question the excellency of this Black energy True, I am great, as are all of us Yet blood graces the pavement and they ask why we fuss I’m furiously fumbling reality, which is foolish and full of s**t Dealing with what the ancestors… Read on
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Black Women are often among the most unprotected group of women on the planet. I took Breonna Taylor’s death so close to heart as if she had been my own sister. Read on
Jennie Matos, 14, chronicles her journey as a black girl attending a PWI. "I can go to their school but will never be a part of their school community." Read on
Look at their eyes They’re staring back at you On the verge of tears Afraid their blood will smear, the cement Black, more than a color It’s a feeling, a lifestyle; a target They’ve picked on the pigmentation that picked and plucked, till their hands bled Was it really centuries ago? Those Brown Eyes Never… Read on
When I was in middle school, my mother would let me buy snacks while she filled her gas tank. One day, we stopped by a Stone Mountain gas station to get snacks as usual. As I was purchasing my bag of chips, I heard a boy get called the N-word by a white man for… Read on
VOX ATL's Christina Norris delivers a poem that captures the current mental state of some of her peers. Read on