By Khiree T. Smith — Remember back when your bones didn’t ache? Young and immortal, you didn’t conceive of energy as energy because it was your default setting. You didn’t think of things like health or happiness or purpose. They were air. You didn’t have to think of normal things. But the moment they left…

The first me was a pretty cool kid. A precocious little, overly sensitive, overly intelligent, middle-child complex having scorpio. They called him “motor-mouth.” Endless energy, boundless love and bottomless naivety. As you can imagine he got hurt a lot. A fragile ego, battling an environment of toxic masculinity intensified by…

By Khiree T. Smith — They murdered the chiefs and stole the suns. Nine year-old Gnik was the reason for the word “shine.” He brightened the days when he rose, and when he slept, darkness fell. Humans rejoiced when he focused and brought warmth to the village and they lamented when his sadness would leave…

I know why you came. You want to know the straight forward ways to earn a $300k salary before 30. This article is not about that, but I know you’ll tell my mom I tricked you, so there’s a short list at the end. You’re welcome. Here’s the central premise…

The intricate tapestry that is “Lemonade” would not be possible without men. Thus, it is by our hand that such beauty has entered the…

From One Black Student — Many Georgetown University Law students experienced a familiar feeling of marginalization after reading that the “Georgetown Law Community” was mourning the death of Antonin Scalia on the Law Center website’s home page. If the institution, knowing the damage Scalia’s actions and decisions caused our lives and communities, could nonetheless attribute…

The Official Black American Farewell to the Forever Legendary President Barack Obama. — Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, I was a seventeen-year-old freshman at Hampton University, the historically black college where Booker T. Washington cut his teeth and Rosa Parks worked as a hostess. That night, my classmates and I, imprisoned by curfew in our all-male dorm, could barely contain ourselves as we awaited…