Kenya Allmond (me)

Poet, activist and scholar Sonia Sanchez keynoted the kickoff event for The George Washington University’s Black Heritage Celebration last night.  I was fortunate to be in attendance as I found out about the event just yesterday.  Sanchez talked about ways she and others organized to effect change and how she’s still doing so even at [...]

I read this interesting article of how African immigrants in the United States are losing their ethnic identities. In African countries where everyone has the same skin color, ethnicity is not defined by race. I can certainly see the author’s point on this because ethnicity is not equivalent to “race” although we tend to think [...]

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond. Being from Virginia and living in Washington, DC for almost 7 years, I [...]