Written by Mashell Sarver-Barkman-Kinzey, Edited and Web-Published by Machaela Barkman “After I am gone, I hope people will remember me as an extremely caring and loving person. I would like my friends to smile when they think of me. Th most important part of my personality is my humor. I…

When people hear “LSD,” the immediate image that pops into many minds is that of the hippies in the 1960s. One advocate and chemist of LSD, Nicholas Sand, believed the world could be changed for the better through the connectedness that LSD use would bring people across the globe (Telegraph…

Birth is supposed to be a beautiful moment for families as they celebrate new life entering the world. However, women of color are three to four times more likely to die of birth or pregnancy complications than their white counterparts (CDC 2017). Instead of celebrating new life, families are mourning…

Once society has no need for something, that something must adapt or it dies out. For theatre in the latter half of the 19th Century, it adapted. American realism developed as a means for theatre to be useful to society, with content focused on everyday people’s struggles (Trumbull 1). In…

People use clothing and jewelry as a form of self-expression. For contemporary followers of Yemaya (Mami Wata), what they wear is much more meaningful. …

For every time and place, there are ideal characteristics of heroes. According to Ancient Greeks, a hero is someone who has an unusual birth, has difficulty operating as a normal human, battles monsters, and is extraordinary in intelligence and physical ability. Straddling the mortal and immortal divide, the ultimate Ancient…

Everyone has a list of characteristics in mind of what makes an ideal mother. According to archetypal theory, a ‘good’ mother is nurturing and caring (Jung, 81–85). The archetypal mother, however, also has “her Stygian depths” — there is a dark part of her personality (Jung, 82). The dark part…

Tempus was alone in the dark void of nothingness. This was all she’d ever known, and perhaps all she would ever know. Somewhere deep inside of herself she felt unbearable despair at her seemingly endless solitude. As her longing for others brewed in her soul, suddenly she felt warm tears…

Living in a country that is so impacted by the Tough on Crime movement, it is imperative to question whether or not the current system of punishment is meeting the standards that it should, and if not, how to change it. …