by Jessica Dunston | Jun 25, 2021 | Blackness, Healing, Race, Spirituality
I am a hoodoo. My ancestral roots in this country are NC, SC, VA. People of the land. My ancestors are a mixture of predominantly West African, Central African, even some Southern African peoples, along with a bit of Lumbee Native American Tribe, and of course...
by Jessica Dunston | Jan 21, 2021 | Blackness, Healing, Politics, Race, Reflection, Society
As we move through inauguration week, there are and will be many things to reflect on. This new administration is monumental and groundbreaking in certain ways, at least visually or performatively. We of course still have not yet seen most of these individuals...
by Jessica Dunston | Nov 5, 2018 | Blackness, Politics, Race, Society
I wanted to take some time out to discuss a very unassuming yet important thing. The Black vote. It’s a mythical thing that simultaneously does and does not exist and is a thing of ultimate power, apparently. To hear everybody else tell it. In almost all angles,...
by Jessica Dunston | Nov 3, 2018 | Blackness, Race
In a recent opinion piece in the Daily News, Alexis Grenell attempts to blame white supremacy and racist violence on Minister Louis Farrakhan….. Ya know… I’m just a little over it when it comes to ways in which some Jewish people overstep a very...
by Jessica Dunston | Jun 19, 2018 | Blackness, Love, Race
Black lives matter. The Black lives you terrorize and threaten while you’re walking around and breathing are counted among them. Somebody’s got to care about those Black lives. If you can be made famous for not caring about those Black lives, I guess that...
by Jessica | Jun 6, 2018 | Art, Blackness, Newark, Race
Marcus B&P’s chicken and waffles has become my newest treat for myself. It is honestly one of the best meals I have ever had downtown Newark, as an adult. I worded that the way I have for a very purposeful reason to be revealed later on… Anywho… Knowing the...
