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The Power of Words and Affirmations

It’s Monday, July 31st, 2017 and for the first time in a long time, I feel content. This summer was supposed to be all about working and trying to get my Spring 2017 balance as close to zero as it could possibly get. And while I am still working on that, I haven’t been happy attempting to do it. I moved into the East Towers at the end of May and I set my room up the exact same way as I did in the…

From time to time I get the urge to just write and type and let out whatever I’m feeling. And in this moment, I decided that I had to talk about my faith.  Many of you might not know but I was born to a Senegalese Muslim father and an African-American Christian mother. I myself believe in God, but I follow practices from various religions.  But to get to the main point, faith is the only reason…

2017 has been a prime time for women to cut all their hair off. And I’m not even talking a nice, short Nia Long type of pixie cut, I’m talking straight faded Lil Boosie cut. I have always had short hair. I consider my “big chop” to be in the tenth grade when I took my sew-in out and ruined my hair with scissors. My hair stylist told me, “Oh. We’re going to cut this into a bob.” My second “big…

Alternative Spring Break: Newark, New Jersey

Monday, March 14, 2017 Today was very interesting, to say the least. It’s my second time back in Newark. I met my cousin for the first time last night at our hotel and his experiences in Jersey vary differently from what I’ve heard so far. To hear feedback on new developments going on in the city from the mayor’s perspective (a Howard University graduate) compared to students and life-long…