I am not your Black therapist
Eve Chambers, New Orleans, LA I am a bartender in the New Orleans French Quarter, and I love to have conversation. To chit chat with...
Darkskin woman with locs.. future Doctor?
Reion’ne Stewart, New Orleans, LA I am a Biology Pre-Med student at Dillard University. I am also a dark-skin woman with locs. I also just...
My Hair Is Appealing to Me
Chantrice Thomas, Gretna, LA Being an American woman with brown skin, I have had my ups and downs with people their opinions about the texture...
Before Trayvon Martin was Yoshi Hattori
Anonymous, Novel Ideas Book Club Baton Rouge, LA. / Washington DC More on Yoshi Hattori
I’m Black before I’m anything else.
Jan Miles, New Orleans, LA. I’m not a woman–I’m a BLACK woman. I’m not a writer–I’m a BLACK writer. In law school, I was a...
“A black married mother, who works”
Rita, Slidell, LA I chose a black married mother, who works because I am. A lot of people do not know what it is like...
Being Black and Queer is Possible
Leroy Harding, New Orleans, LA I’m a black queer man who attends Southern University at New Orleans. Often times intersectionality seems nonexistent in the black...
Black Girl In A White World
Meleah Williams, New Orleans, LA Growing up I experienced police brutality three times before the age of 18. But that’s a black girl in a...
RACE isn’t culture or beauty. Brains are.
Aida Verri, New Orleans, LA. You are not ugly, pretty, stupid, smart, strong, weak, violent or calm because of your “race”. Your skin color isn’t...
Being Black is beautiful, even when (no one else thinks so)
Keriana Rogers, New Orleans, LA Growing up, understanding that my black was beautiful no matter the circumstances was hard. Now that I’m older I embrace...
Latinx didn’t come to steal job
Jeysi Guillen, New Orleans, LA Aspen X The stereotypes that a lot of people have about Latinx in America.
People of Quality Respect Race Equality
Saheba Cuccia, New Orleans, LA. Aspen X Adopted and raised in the South, I have seen and heard of the racial barriers that some people...
Refuse to follow the racial constructs.
Racquel Picou, New Orleans, LA. Aspen X To me race is just a social and political construct that is very binding. A reason for humans...
I will not be an ally
Shelly Gremillion, Hammond, LA I lost my home in Hurricane Ida. When we arrived home after evacuation there were kids running and riding bikes stopping...
My voice is always hidden away.
Brandy Roberts, Cottonport, LA. I am a loving mom of 2 beautiful kids. I am proud to be white, and I can not voice that...
My hair defines me, woman Black!
Meteorologist Rhonda Lee, Shreveport, LA. I was let go from my job as a meteorologist at KTBS in Shreveport, LA for a Facebook post where...
“I didn’t know you liked chocolate”
Dana Judkins, Shreveport, LA. I get this a lot when people find out I have a black boyfriend.
