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Understanding Kanye West: Present Pains Wrought by an Absent Father
The roiling drama surrounding Kanye West, his messy divorce from Kim Kardashian and the ways their children are being used as pawns to score cheap points is truly sad to witness. Many are taking sides as they line up behind…
Follow Your Arrow: The Profundity of Kacey Musgraves and the Redemption Songs She Sings
Life is never straight but a series of twists and turns where one day we are standing on solid ground only for the floor to crack beneath us. Most of the time, these unexpected developments are painful as hell, the…
This Wisdom that Arrived Upon My Heart: Coping is Prison, Feeling is Freedom
You never know what freedom feels like until you escape the walls that have kept you in bondage for so long. I write this not from a place of piety as if I have life figured out but as a…
A Moment of Truth and Accountability: My Thoughts About Hermela Aregawi and the #NoMore Campaign
Let me state from the outset that my aim in writing this article is not to pile on Hermela Aregawi nor is my purpose to capitalize on the latest controversy. On the contrary, I am speaking up to defend a…