Writing Is The Freedom I Didn't Know I Needed
It’s a Sunday morning. I’m drinking coffee from one of my infamous mugs, enjoying the sun beaming through the window, and waiting for...
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ARCHULETACHISOLM
Journalist - Author - Poet
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Mar 25, 20212 min read
By Any Other Name
I’m thankful that I have never had to be someone else, in order to have my writing voice heard. As a society, we still have a way to go...
Feb 21, 20213 min read
Creative Women of the Harlem Renaissance
In the 1920’s, creative and intellectual life thrived within African American communities in the North and Midwest, but nowhere more so...
Sep 19, 20182 min read
From Schoolhouse to the White House: Alice Dunnigan
Alice Allison Dunnigan, the daughter of a Kentucky sharecropper, dreamed of becoming a journalist. She fought through segregation and...
Sep 12, 20182 min read
Black Women Writers, Racism and Sexism
In Carlene Hatcher Polite’s 1967 novel, “The Flagellants”, the main character describes her love affair with a Black poet as “irrevocable...
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