Akilah Davis

Blackness ‘not an economic status’

Akilah Davis/ Staff Writer It seems as if each article I write goes on to inspire my next, but inspiration does what it wants. I recently read a column in the Miami Herald written by entrepreneur Brian Brackeen, in which he expressed his “blackness” or “lack thereof.” He wrote that he had a lost an […]

Love is not a fairytale but ‘a state of existence’

Akilah Davis/ Staff Writer The media portrays relationships to be something from fairytales. Men, who are willing to do anything and everything to express his undying love for her, and women, who are so innocent, so dainty and so beautiful. What society fails to tell us is that relationships are entities. They move and grow, […]

A true artist is not always the people’s choice

Society believes success is fit for one person at a time, and what sucks the most about this is that they don't always get the right person.

We are forgetting the true reason to celebrate Christmas

As I've gotten older, my dynamic of the holiday season has changed. Only, as I've come to recognize my faith and spirituality more in my adulthood, it seems as if everyone around me is losing their own.

“Boy please,” women can do everything men can

Women in America are antagonized, sexualized and minimized.

Money is what makes the world go round

I work part-time at the Coral Square Mall, in Coral Springs, FL. where there was a fatal shooting episode this past Thanksgiving. And yes, I was at work that day.

Internet fabricates and erases our true identities

Who are you without a social image? It's almost impossible to consider an identity without one, being that the internet is both accessed and accessible to virtually anyone, starting approximately at three years old — according to the results of a 2013 study reported in The Telegraph.

President-elect Trump just doesn’t make sense

A government official who has committed over 35 long years to public service- a former First Lady of the United States- lost a presidential election to a real estate developer. It just doesn't make sense.

There is a time to celebrate and a time to mourn

People never shock me. The only thing shocking now is their nerve.
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