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To The Girl in the Yale Sweatshirt

It was Christmas Eve, I guess technically Christmas because it was past midnight. We are, in fact, die-hard, committed Catholics, and on the Southside of Chicago on Christmas Eve, you are always found in your home parish, and my mother and I

Marykatherine Woodson by Marykatherine Woodson
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Tracks of Passage: How to Ride A Dragon Coaster & Other Lessons I Learned from Dad

When you’ve got moxie, you need the clothes to match. When you haven’t got it, they need to match even more. The more the clothes match, the more they cover. The other neighborhood kids, their rites were normal affairs, the things you’d

Lyzette Wanzer by Lyzette Wanzer
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A City Girl On Country Time

We’re alone, Patrick and I, in a three-story house an hour outside of Naples, Italy. In Tufo, Italy. It took us one taxi and two buses to get here. We don’t date, we don’t have sex either, but it’s just us two

Kelana Celine Johnson by Kelana Celine Johnson
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The Black Female Body: A Figure in Motion, Never at Rest

Black bodies are the world’s playground. Full of color, music, song, dance, cheer, and laughter that delights the masses. It is the happiest place on Earth; for where else could you find this much light steeped in so much darkness? Its mere

Lauren Morton by Lauren Morton
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The Riot Within: The Pain and Power of When They See Us and Why Black Traumatic Stories Matter

I was twenty-four years old when I learned about the Central Park Case. Browsing the documentary section on Amazon Prime, I happened upon a description that read: “Filmmakers examine a 1989 case, regarding five teenagers wrongfully convicted of raping a woman.” I watched the

Tessa Williams by Tessa Williams
Family/FICTION | SHORT STORY

“Picking Up the Pieces”

Adesanya’s sunken eyes show shadows and fire. The wet earth opens and moves under foot. Behind the log cabin, beyond the stone ridge, stands a grey wind-whipped landscape; it tumbles like a deck of cards. A free-falling disaster charges in gravity’s call,

Maroula Blades by Maroula Blades
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Close Encounters of the “Angry Black Woman” Kind

The e-mail message was as jarring as the sound of an alarm clock on Saturday morning. Especially since I didn’t know the sender and was in no way expecting it. A little bit of contextual background may be helpful here. I enjoy

Barbara Bruner by Barbara Bruner
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Under The Wolf’s Bonnet

In this Think-Like-A-Man world, this Fault-in-our-Stars universe, it embarrasses me to say that I am inept at love. Falling in love is something most people have to resist. Shaking off suitors should be as easy as wearing lipstick. I am still staggering

Justin Teopista Nagundi by Justin Teopista Nagundi
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