ON TURNING EIGHTEEN
IN exactly five months and eighteen days from the time I’m writing this, I will be eighteen years old. Like many other starry-eyed young...
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Jonetta Rose Barras
- Apr 12
- 3 min
The Resurrection Message
DO you sometimes feel as if you’ve become caught in quicksand and it’s impossible to pull yourself out. Each time you move, the deeper...
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Philomena Stone
- Apr 8
- 3 min
The Education System I’m Leaving Behind
NEAR the end of February, a student was accosted by an armed robber at the bus stop looking to steal his Airpods not even 500 feet away...
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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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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
- 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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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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- Dec 14, 2021
- 4 min
Discovering the Strength Within Me
“It is for the best.” “You have to be strong.” “Why are you crying?” “Why aren’t you crying?” “You have to be strong.” “It’s part of...
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Alycea Gayle
- Oct 10, 2021
- 4 min
“School is the wrong place to be wrong!”How grading has killed the joy of learning within schools
I recall a tough time in my seventh-grade computer coding elective class-- one of many tough times that would plague me throughout that...
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Alycea Gayle
- Sep 12, 2021
- 3 min
Anything But Dark Skin: The Rise in Black Women Disassociating Themselves from Afrocentrism
Pinterest frequently tailors its feeds to users’ interest: a sneaker lover’s Pinterest feed might be full of shoes; an aspiring home...
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