In the summer of 2011 volunteers and members of North Philadelphia neighborhoods came together to paint a mural at the Cecil B Moore Recreation Center Playground at 22nd and Lehigh Avenue. This grassroots project began with Teyona Jackson, who met […]
You might be wondering, what’s the deal with the raw food diet? I’m sometimes asked why I’m a raw vegan and the main reason is because I want to try to avoid or delay diseases that run in my family. […]
I spent the first two nights in Rome because it had the most history of anywhere else in Italy. Flights there came to around $700 round trip because I booked it close to the date. From there it would be […]
I was born to shine through an awareness that exists behind the public face of stereotypes and limited imagination. The first things most people point out about me is that I’m black. I’ve been called a nigger by strangers and […]
Black Women Are The Mules Of The Earth is a quote from Zora Neale Hurston who spoke through the heroine Janie Crawford in her 1937 book, ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’. I began to grapple with the imagery that statement elicited, […]
