Why I Teach Ebony Visions and Cowrie Shell Dreams: Black Storytelling and Children’s Literature Across the Generations
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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...
jonetta rose barras
- Dec 12, 2023
- 9 min
DISCOVERY SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED
ON December 9, 2023 three young ladies from the Washington Metropolitan Region were chosen by a team of prestigious judges as recipients...
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jonetta rose barras
- Sep 30, 2023
- 4 min
TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON
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...
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jonetta rose barras
- Sep 14, 2023
- 2 min
On Starting College and Letting Go of High School
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...
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jonetta rose barras
- Sep 14, 2023
- 7 min
Ruth Simmons' Hardscrabble journey from East Texas to elite higher education
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...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jul 15, 2023
- 5 min
The Importance of Self Care (Even When Not On Vacations)
I recall awaking a few weeks ago to the feeling of my plush comforter wrapped around my body and the sound of Northern Mockingbirds...
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jonetta rose barras
- May 17, 2023
- 5 min
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, 2023
- 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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jonetta rose barras
- Apr 8, 2023
- 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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jonetta rose barras
- Feb 3, 2023
- 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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jonetta rose barras
- Jan 16, 2023
- 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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jonetta rose barras
- Jan 8, 2023
- 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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jonetta rose barras
- Jan 8, 2023
- 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
- 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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jonetta rose barras
- 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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jonetta rose barras
- 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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jonetta rose barras
- 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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