A new publication from Medium has answers! Please help us welcome the newest Medium publication, Index. It’s an informative hub for the lived work experience, a place to glean lessons from candid moments of triumph or failure. There are also calls to action for change and yes, cathartic humor. As our work life evolves and our desire to seek both success and serenity hangs in the balance, we feel this new launch is perfectly timed. You can see/read for yourself here. Enjoy!

I devoured the Cicely Tyson autobiography, Just As I Am, the same week it arrived in the mail. What a life! The takeaways were numerous, but what I most appreciated about her story is her integrity. She decided early on in her career not to take on roles that she…

I know the Super Bowl was a few days ago, and maybe I should be over it by now. But I absolutely could not — and still cannot — understand why the powers that be in programming land had to pair super songstress Jazmine Sullivan with country singer Eric Church…

That’s why I’ve lobbied so hard to create unique spaces for us — I have been covering the Black experience in America for decades. And it has been my unique privilege, and honor, to use whatever platform I have to uplift the stories by, for, and about Black women. Living in this skin, I know all too well how often the voices of…

Imagine if you learned that photographs of your enslaved ancestors had been rediscovered in a museum at Harvard. Then imagine how you would feel if someone told you that you have no right to those photographs. Such is the plight of Tamara Lanier, who has taken on the Ivy League…

Like many of you, I feel somewhat in limbo. I’m not old enough to qualify to get the vaccine just yet, and I’m not considered an essential worker either. So I’m left wondering just when I’ll get my turn at bat. …

I never considered myself much of a crafts person. I mean, like everyone else, I did art projects in grade school and tried my best to color within the lines. But I never felt an overwhelming desire to create in that way. That is until now. Over the last year…

Liza Donnelly, famed visual journalist for such tony publications as the New Yorker, has found her happy place once again. She’s sharpening her pencil to capture the new occupants and…

That’s the question Tressie McMillan Cottom poses in her latest Medium blog post. To her, it’s the end goal of a turbulent journey this country has been on since its inception. As she states: If no one else has mentioned it (or, you missed that day in class), I want…