February 2021
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in OpinionsPresident Biden Can’t Forget About Black Millennials
During the disrespectfully long Election Week (no shade to the Election Day workers…y’all did your thing), I went through a large range of emotions. I was excited, apathetic, nervous, exasperated, and fed up. Between the pandemic, social justice uprising, and the general trials and tribulations of being a student, I was just about done. After […] More
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So, What’s The Antidote To This Racial Battle Fatigue We’re Feeling?
I believe that focusing on habit making can help to overcome racial battle fatigue. Let me explain. Very early in the pandemic, quarantine trapped me in a vicious cycle of repetitiveness. This cycle was not grounded in any type of positivity or productivity. I was stuck in a state of ugh. A state of ugh […] More
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What’s Love Got To Do With Black Millennials?
Black millennials are a precarious group of individuals. We printed out MapQuest directions, had to type the 4 and 6 key on a phone five times to spell “going” when we texted our friends (on a Razr if we were lucky), and now we’re shouldering more loan debt than any generation before us. The unique […] More
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The Black Millennial’s Guide to Telemedicine Visits
So, we are officially a year into this pandemic (Panera Bread, panorama, panzanella…whatever alternative name you have for this little pandemic that we are going through)…but, the point is that we are more than 365 days into what some of us (me!) thought was going to be all wrapped up by September 2020. So, the […] More
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Let’s Talk About Black Grief
By the time my dad had turned 50 years old, he’d already survived two heart attacks. He died at the age of 52 after suffering complications from pulmonary hypertension. I was 22 years old and on my way to social work school in New York. My journey with grief didn’t begin with my dad’s passing, […] More
