by Hollie Aríel | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog
Around this time, many of our young black women and men are getting their first apartment as they move away from home to find work or continue on to higher education. Ain’t that a victory! A victory indeed considering the strides and sacrifices made to get here....
by Hollie Aríel | May 18, 2014 | Blog
I recently realized how little I know about a majority of the people that I am constantly around on a day to day basis. I know almost everything about them in terms of what classes they are taking, what they like to do for fun and whether or not they are politically...
by Hollie Aríel | Apr 15, 2014 | Blog
“People looking at me funny is so common that it doesn’t stick out for me anymore. It’s something I’ve gotten used to… I’ll leave this school and there will be teachers who never knew I was one of the people on the honor...
by Hollie Aríel | Apr 5, 2014 | Blog
I was hanging with some friends when I saw one of them looking at these tweets that all had “#WhitePeopleEquivalent”. I thought, “Let me see what this shit is.” Apparently, a white woman decided to offer a helping hand to Black Girl Dangerous...
by Hollie Aríel | Mar 26, 2014 | Blog
There is a good number of us who have been in those situations where we feel like our black counterparts are constantly questioning our legitimacy to participate in the group. What I’ve recently discovered as a student on a predominantly white college campus is...
