A few months ago I saw this painting. Well, it’s actually embroidered (by hand) which makes it that much cooler. Anyways, It’s the story of a water monster that comes every month to the village and demands a sacrifice to be made to him, in order to stop terrorizing the…

My mother was much younger than me when she had me. And realizing that, taught me 2 things. 1st, To have more compassion for my parents because they were raising another human being while probably having their own existential crisis at the same time. 2nd, is that we’re not living…

Without hesitation, I dropped everything to come work under the mentorship of Magatte Wade, because I wholeheartedly believed that her dedication to fighting poverty was unlike anything I had seen before. I became inspired by her because at a time when everyone else was thinking about Africa as a helpless…

“Innocence in an adult is not the same as gullibility or naivety. Rather, it is a quality that comes with maturity and arises out of a lifetime’s experience that trusting in the heart for guidance always proves to be the best way to deal with life’s ups and downs. Innocence…

It was 2014, when I was scrolling through the February issue of Essence magazine, and I stumbled upon a feature of this black couple, with whom I immediately fell in love. I was enthralled by the way the man leaned into his wife with eyes closed and a soft assured…

“It don’t change nothing. It’s all good. It don’t change nothing. It don’t. It don’t. It don’t.” These the words Ralph Angel utters at the end of this season premiere. Words that seem half anthem, half prayer, and are perhaps the best way to describe the theme of this episode…

“Well, when I was nine years old Star Trek came on,” Whoopi Goldberg says. “I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, ‘Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there’s a black lady on television and she ain’t no maid!’ …

Today I am celebrating Ms Oprah Winfrey, who recently won the Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille award. It’s given to people who have made a big impact on the entertainment industry, and I couldn’t think of a better person to win this prestigious accolade. From a Body compassion perspective, this…

In her recent Op-ed in the NY Times actress Mayim Vialik offered some words of (what she thought would be) wisdom, regarding the rape culture of Hollywood and society at large. She talks of her own story of flying under the radar of predatory men because thankfully, her plain looks…