Radical has a negative connotation to it nowadays, but it’s not radical to want equal rights, believe that my tax money should ensure me at the very least, clean air, water, access to healthy food, adequate housing, and a bridge that won’t collapse while I’m on it. Not one working or retired person should starve…
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Capitalism Killed the American Dream
Once upon a time, in an American neighborhood, you could buy a house, work through college to pay your tuition with zero student loan debt, and have a child without feeling as if you would never financially recover. The credit score wasn’t even created until 1989. It wasn’t until 1978 that federal student loans were…
Death by Documentation: Do You Want to See Change or Do you Want Credit?
Both can happen in tandem. A good example of why putting documentation before helping people is the April 29th tragedy where 2 people lost their lives and they 300k people in Allegheny County lost power. What was the tragedy? Lack of infrastructure and a lot of wind. The aftermath left a lot of people without…
Leaders Who Won’t Step Aside Are Holding Movements Back
Watching the new Red Lobster CEO excel at his job and also know how to accept feedback is amazing. As someone who voluntarily left corporate America and read that a lot of Gen Z and Millennials would rather work at a cash register than climb a corporate ladder, it doesn’t surprise me. Young people are…
Chasing Passion, Not Paychecks: My Journey Beyond the Grind
“Oh no! I didn’t get that job or opportunity.” Okay, but did you just quit after rejection? Did you just give up? Giving up is not an option for me. I hate capitalism. I would love to be in my “soft girl era,” but I grew up watching my mom hustle. She took us to…
Black Women Lead Even When It Hurts
Black People have been leading the movement for change for decades and the change has always intentionally included everyone else, but if this election taught us anything, it taught us that everyone doesn’t have that same “everyone” mentality.
Point of Zen: Losing Friends, Gaining Confidence, and Other Things My 30s Are Teaching Me
A look at growing older vs growing wiser, gaining confidence and losing friends.
Permanent Stability and Other Fairytales We Tell Ourselves
Permanent Stability Can Be Achieved? Being laid off at my first job out of college was the biggest blessing. I appreciate it in hindsight because it taught me that it was impossible to have life figured out and to accept that as fact not feeling. This helped me rewire my brain to no longer associate…
Dear College Freshmen,
Dear first-year college student,Congrats you made it to campus. Roll your sleeves up after you’re done using your sleeves to wipe your tears after saying that first goodbye to your parents. There’s so much work to be done and you will cry every time you’re dropped off to campus every year. The realization that you’re…
A is for Accountability
Growing up I’ve learned I’ll make mistakes. Growing up most of the time I was around my four brothers they resolved their conflicts by fighting and getting over it and occasionally they would not get over it right away but they got over it. Attending an all-girls university was a new ball game. Women play…
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