By: Haliehana “Alagum Ayagaa” Stepetin My dad raised me to hunt, fish, and hike, camp, build fires, and drive a skiff. He taught me to cast a line on the beach, take the hook out of a fish mouth, slide my fingers under the gills, crack the neck and bleed it. He taught me to […]
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By: Joy Turner During the last few weeks of my first quarter as a grad student, I received a phone call from my mother saying that my two nieces had no clothes to wear. She asked me if I could send some clothes to them as a sort of Christmas present. I was devastated to
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By: Timothy Phillips As a child, I never dreamed I’d go to college. Actually, I did dream of college, quite a bit. Growing up as a young Black male in Pittsburgh under challenging economic, personal, and familial conditions, I was lucky enough to be very cognizant of the world around me to know that I
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FOB Hope: One Vet’s Story of Finding Purpose After Service By: Monique Brown In 1987, I was literally sitting on my bed contemplating the next move I would make in my life. I was about to start my fourth year in a two-year college and I just could not see myself doing that! At that
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A Veteran Finds Solace in the Outdoors By: Lornett Vestal Working with Sierra Club… What Veterans Day Means to Me Every year on November 11th, America celebrates a day that honors men and women who currently or used to wear the uniform of the United States Armed Forces. We as a country, despite our differences in religion,
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“Legally Black” By: Fontaine Wilson I remember my senior year of high school, I had just received my acceptance letter to my #1 college choice. I was beyond excited and couldn’t wait to tell my parents. Then my mother let me know we couldn’t afford it. I was crushed. I had worked so hard in
E Pluribus Unum By: Chuck Tyler Before I tell you what inspires me to be a part of Black History Month now, I want to tell you this. My parents separated on my sixth birthday, and I remember riding with my dad to live with his parents, my grandparents. My grandparents were married for 46 years,