Black Beauty

a sonnet — Within the bluest eye of the beholder, How I wonder up, above a star so high, About an older twinkling, drinking gourd Skies over the marvelous, grand gravel: Why is this soil bad for certain kinds of flowers? Having made sweet outta being concrete built, Potted-snipped, replanted an’ plucked. That type of pretty’ll soon be whacked— the nectar-center sucked. ‘So no mo’ don’t grow, y’know?’

Telling on myself as a black woman. — That “Th-ought” is very deliberate. It is a work in progress to peel off layers and continue to find more biases. READ: Sex With A Nigerian Man First, thank heavens for the internet. I am African. I grew up in Africa and until we got the internet- I like many…

Author : Anne Sewell Genre : Fiction, Novel Rating : 5 – Star 👤 About Author **Anna Sewell was an English novelist. She is well known as the author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty, which is now considered one of the top ten best selling novels for children, although it was intended at the time for an adult audience.** **Born : 30 March 1820, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom** **Died : 25 April 1878, Old Catton Norwich, United Kingdom**

A Celebration of Black Beauty in Commemoration of Black History Month —

It’s 12:01 am and I just finished another run-through of what has been many times dancing, singing, crying while watching“Black is King” by Beyonce, her second visual album that aired on Disney+ on July 31st, 2020. Although, I would totally count Homecoming as a visual album because WOW. …

Hello, world! One would say that the title of this blog post is misleading as it is not the first time that I publish my thoughts online, but one of this kind, yes it is! …

I wrote this piece in 2012 during the height of the “natural hair movement” — if that’s even what we’re calling it. Someone asked me to share my natural hair journey, which was a complex off-and-on relationship until the moment I describe below. The story goes like this: I remember…