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I consider the start of the new year an opportunity to reset by life. Most of us make promises to change. We pledge to improve our diets,...
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S. Hammond
- Feb 3
- 3 min
AN EMPTY BOOK?
HAVE you ever opened a book, started reading, and had zero to no idea what you were reading? Maybe there were even a few missing pages. ...
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Philomena Stone
- Jan 16
- 8 min
Confidence in the Age of Tik Tok
A Breakdown of the App’s Beauty Standards and Accepting Your Appearance in the Age of Un-naturalism I want you to forget about whatever...
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R. Badua
- Jan 8
- 3 min
Survival of the Fittest
IN Science class, I've learned about natural selection and how it causes animals to adapt and evolve to their environment using inherited...
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R. Jordan
- Jan 8
- 4 min
AN ANOMALY NO MORE
MY mother has bestowed upon me many advantageous lessons in the form of beatings, groundings, and neglect. "You need to learn to be okay...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- Jan 8
- 2 min
ESTHER PRODUCTIONS INC. ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF ITS DISCOVERING ME…WITHOUT YOU SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
Raea Jordan and Raine Badua were chosen by a distinguished panel of judges as Top Scholarship winners in Tier 1 (15-18) category and Tier...
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Alycea Gayle
- Oct 9, 2022
- 2 min
‘My Relationship With Fatherless Daughter-ness’
FOR the longest time, I prided myself on not being like the other fatherless daughters—the ones whose symptoms are ridiculed and...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- Sep 6, 2022
- 3 min
Words that Heal and Propel
Reconciliation. That is a word we, at Esther Productions Inc., often speak. We understand its power. Trauma. That’s another word we...
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Alycea Gayle
- Sep 5, 2022
- 3 min
LAST CALL… SORTA
AUGUST 29th, 2022 marked the first day of my senior year of high school--my last first day of grade school. I’d prayed for so long for...
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Alycea Gayle
- Jul 10, 2022
- 4 min
Reflecting on my rights
DURING the first month of 2020, I remember seeing lighthearted tweets hoping for a return to the glitz, glamour, and supposed “freedom”...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- May 21, 2022
- 1 min
DANCE, DANCE DANCE
“A lot of suffering happens when we are thinking about the past or the future; we go over and over those things in our mind,” Horan says....
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- May 10, 2022
- 6 min
The River Spoke My Name
I can’t remember exactly what prompted the ritual of spending many of my Saturdays during my youth in the French Quarter of New Orleans....
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- Mar 5, 2022
- 5 min
Do You Know Who You Are?
“...I smile in the mirror at my wide ass/spaghetti thin legs I have no doubts of who i am, i am a believer in myself!”--from Peace WHEN I...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- Mar 4, 2022
- 3 min
We Remember Even as We Try to Forget
WHEN I wrote my book, Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl? The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women, I realized that so many...
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Alycea Gayle
- Mar 4, 2022
- 2 min
No More Masks! Ish.
I had never fully understood why the phrase ‘like a breath of fresh air’ was so common until today—the day I am officially allowed to...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- Feb 10, 2022
- 7 min
Stand Close To Me: Building A Relationship
“NO man ever broke up with me.” That was a frequent boast of mine in speeches I gave during tours related to my various books focused on...
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- Feb 10, 2022
- 3 min
I WILL SMILE
LEANNE Brady once expressed the following sentiments, “So yes, today I am full of sorrow, But I will smile a little more with each...
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john allem
- Jan 9, 2022
- 3 min
Pieces of him, Pieces of me
A lot of my life I have been piecing together different parts of my dad, like a puzzle but without all the pieces. Well, a puzzle made up...
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Alycea Gayle
- Jan 9, 2022
- 3 min
Vinegar Over Honey: How Niceties Minimize Issues
CHANCES are, you have probably heard that adage, “You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.” It’s a phrase taken to the heart by the...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- Dec 17, 2021
- 3 min
REFLECTING: Endings and Beginnings
I am always excited at this time of year, not just because I love Christmas, the opportunity to be with friends and to share gifts....
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