Author: Just a Girl from Brooklyn
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The Ultimate Guide to Wellness Travel: Black Women’s Travel Tips for Your Next Solo Getaway
I’ve been there. You’re looking at your calendar, scrolling through TikTok, and seeing all these soft life aesthetic videos of women floating in turquoise water or sipping wine on a balcony in Italy. It looks like a dream, right? But if you’re like me, a girl who’s lived through the high-frequency hum of Brooklyn and…
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Spring time in NYC: How to Romanticize Your Life in the City
New York City has a powerful vibration. It’s the constant siren in the background, the movement, the ambition, and that specific kind of energy that can pull you into motion before you’ve even had your first sip of coffee. For a long time, I thought being a “Brooklyn Girl” meant I had to match that…
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Finding Peace: How Black Women are Leaving Corporate Jobs for a Softer Life
In today’s fast-paced and achievement-oriented society, quitting is often seen as a sign of weakness or failure. For Black women in particular, this portrayal encourages and even requires us to persevere, fight until the end, uphold perfection, and become magical. However, over the past few years, Black women have not succumbed to this pressure; instead,…
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Just A Girl From Brooklyn: Where I’m From Poem
I am from a large family with tight-knit values, solid to the core. I am from television, illegal cable, pay-per-view fights, Super Mario, and Nintendo 64. I am from a plastic runner protecting my mother’s precious pink rug- thats actually mauve. I am from the beat of my dad’s drums played daily outside my room;…
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Today is the day my daughter died…
On this day two years ago on January 26, 2021, my daughter, Summer Aaliyah Irene Walker passed away. She was just born five days prior, at only 25 weeks. I was six months pregnant and was diagnosed with a rare form of preeclampsia resulting in an emergency c-section. Sometimes, I have to say it out…
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I love Gemini’s and Gemini szn and here’s 10 reason’s why you do too!
This Gemini season is special because of COVID-19 pandemic and social- distancing. Spending time at home gives me time to reflect and as I sat and watched the clock switch to 12:00 am on 5/21/2020 I felt a surge of good energy and reassurance that no matter the current situation we’re all in this together.…
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A tribute to my 20s
Today is the last day of my 20’s and as I sit with that I just want to reflect: 1) The idea that success, life, and other adulthood goals have to be completed in your 20’s is false. Success doesn’t have an age limit and whatever I wasn’t able to accomplish then, I actually have…
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7 Day Guide to Cape Town & Johannesburg South Africa
Written By: Rebecca and Sukina Added Pictures: By Mechelle Early May, my friends and I got together for a group trip to South Africa to celebrate our Queen Rebecca King’s 30th birthday. Somehow we managed to fit what seemed like a 10 day trip into 5 days. We visited both Cape Town and Johannesburg, two…
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