Publish your story celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, and you may be featured in ZORA — Hi, ZORA fam, happy Hispanic Heritage Month! For the next 30 days, we’ll celebrate and learn about the histories, cultures, and impacts of our Hispanic and Latinx ancestors, neighbors, and family. This month, want to hear from you! If you identify as Latinx, Hispanic, Afro-Latinx, or anywhere in between, how…

Share your memories for the chance to be featured in ZORA — Do you remember where you were 20 years ago on 9/11? How did you feel then? How do you feel now? Have your beliefs about patriotism, nationalism, race and religion evolved since then? Do you remember the first time you ever heard the words “I love you?” Or how about…

In a book excerpt, the nation’s art stars discuss showing up and showing out — Carrie Mae Weems is an artist for this generation. Her work exemplifies the Black experience and invites layers of contemplation and meaning. The conversation below is excerpted from the book Carrie Mae Weems, wherein various essays and interviews explore the work and cultural importance of the influential artist. …

We’re giving away $100,000 in prizes, and all you have to do is write — If you didn’t know already, Medium is hosting an essay writing contest, and we want you (yes, YOU!) to enter. The Medium Writers Challenge is a chance for you to get creative, turn your thoughts into a great essay, and win some prize money, too. Entering the challenge is easy…

ZORA columnist Ayesha K. Faines passed away on July 2. Her parents want to honor her legacy. — The world has lost a rising, shining star. Ayesha K. Faines was a writer, a journalist, a media personality, a friend and a woman of power. …

Today is ZORA’s birthday, and we’re celebrating the stories that made us — Today is ZORA magazine’s second anniversary, and we’re celebrating our birthday by celebrating you! Since June 2019, ZORA has been the space on the internet where Black women can get personal about our culture, our pleasure, our pains, our fears, our jobs, our families, and our lives. So many of…

Ethel’s Club Founder Naj Austin delivers critical tips and reminders — Last year, after just four months of opening Ethel’s Club, a social group and safe space invented for people of color, founder Naj Austin had to make a hard pivot from IRL to virtual fellowship amid a global pandemic. A heavy undertaking given the circumstances and uncertainty of the world…

Dive into these works of poetry by Black women during National Poetry Month — June Jordan shrewdly told us, “Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” And take it from us, there’s so much truth to share from Black women…

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative journalist known for her coverage of civil rights and racial injustice for the New York Times Magazine. Hannah-Jones also co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization dedicated to increasing the ranks of investigative reporters of color. …