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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”   Stella Adler   Dear Friend,   AS you know, for 20 years,...

OCTOBER 2024 NE WSLETTER   ESTHER TALKS                                                                  “The discipline of creation, be...

IN 1967, after a four-month stint in corporate America, I announced to my supervisor that the job was not my suit of clothes. She was...

ON December 9, 2023 three young ladies from the Washington Metropolitan Region were chosen by a team of prestigious judges as recipients...

IN the morning from my balcony, I look out at the expanse of trees. October opens with them beginning to change colors—a sprinkle of gold...

I have survived my second week of college. If you had asked me last month if that was something I thought myself capable of doing, I...

WHEN the galley for Ruth J. Simmons’ memoir — Up Home: One Girl’s Journey — arrived in my mailbox a few months ago, I couldn’t wait to...

I recall awaking a few weeks ago to the feeling of my plush comforter wrapped around my body and the sound of Northern Mockingbirds...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

IN Science class, I've learned about natural selection and how it causes animals to adapt and evolve to their environment using inherited...

MY mother has bestowed upon me many advantageous lessons in the form of beatings, groundings, and neglect. "You need to learn to be okay...

FOR the longest time, I prided myself on not being like the other fatherless daughters—the ones whose symptoms are ridiculed and...

Reconciliation. That is a word we, at Esther Productions Inc., often speak. We understand its power. Trauma. That’s another word we...

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...

DURING the first month of 2020, I remember seeing lighthearted tweets hoping for a return to the glitz, glamour, and supposed “freedom”...

WHEN I wrote my book, Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl? The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women, I realized that so many...