How our institutions are failing us At the moment I am typing this my phone notifications are exploding with outrage from an email that students at my university — we’ll call it “CollegeU” for this article — received. It stated that in lieu of the five-day spring break we are…

Today I am among the first people to have turned twenty, who have only existed since the turn of the millennia. …

I can’t rest because I keep toying, sadistically, with the concept of heartbreak. I’m not just pondering the concept; I’m forcing myself to re-experience what the edges of it feel like. The hollowness in my chest. The inability to breathe. The weight in my stomach. The disassociation from limbs. The…

Theories on Black Gen-Zers Attachment to 90’s Music I. Intro A few weeks ago, I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Switched on Pop. It’s hosted by musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding where they “pull back the curtain on how pop hits work magic on our ears and…

Exploring How the Phenomenon of “TikTok Hits” Impacts Black Culture With a pandemic corraling millions of Americans into their homes more and more people finally gave into the video social media app TikTok. In my own family of five, four of us have the app, and we walk around the…

Discovering Who am I When I am Well When my therapist asked me “well what is a healthy lifestyle to you” I had a very nebulous answer. Now I am a Type A, high achiever, goal-oriented type of college student, so I know all the makings of a good goal…

My review of the newest additions to my playlist This weekend R&B fans were FED. A five-track EP from Summer Walker titled Life on Earth, new Kaytranda ft. Lucky Daye, and a new track by Snoh Alegra that’ll make you call your ex. Fans also got a feminine rap twist…

My perspective on the holiday in today’s climate “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? “I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim” — Frederick Douglass That…

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