Success is defined for me by its elusiveness. Sometimes it’s tangible: I can grasp it in the terms of money, grades, or works I want to produce within the year. Other times, it slips through my fingers...
it's raining at seven thirty dark. i’m crying in public at my pwi and
all you can do is stare.
the street lights reflect off the sleek asphalt
and slick oil,
a mother and her...
“How can we have a Black House, if we can’t even have a Black meal,” –Charles Hendon, ’25
This scolding, yet endearing, quote is all I can think about when asked to write a preface to the...
The Georgiana Rose Organization (GRO) is a mental health-focused student organization dedicated to the individual, social, cultural and political advancement of Black women at UChicago. Our aim is to create...
“Music is the weapon of the future”
–Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti
“Shoutout my label, that’s me.”
–Dominique Armani Jones
Two iconic quotes from two legendary artists. The first...
A major part of Black History Month is celebrating the achievements of Africans and African people across the diaspora. And there’s a lot of Black excellence–which is the idea that Black people who...
Intergenerational communities have been formed in Sudan’s أَحواش (ahwash) for centuries as brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, and cousins with questionable degrees of relation run under...
After hearing Samantha Taylor’s poem “The Audacity of Blackness,” Arianna Lafontant wanted to permanently commemorate it in a short film. She recorded Sammie reciting her poem again at Rockefeller...
“Where fun goes to die!”
Probably not something you want to hear in a psych ward.
These words were spoken by a man wearing a UChicago sweater sitting across the room from me during group...
The Entrance - Getting Accepted to the University of Chicago
For most of my life, I didn’t even know that the University of Chicago existed. This changed during my senior year of high school, when I...
My piece was done with digital media and the art program Krita. In my piece, a white hand is holding a candle, melting the black woman’s skin, representative of the forceful removal of Africans centuries...
