Trey “Director 80” Smith’s Botanical Series transforms the garden into sacred ground, where color, light, and structure mirror the inner work of healing. Red gates, water, and greenery become symbols of protection, ancestry, unity, and quiet spiritual growth

Relief has become something you experience quietly. We walk away from the water, the pink bag dragging at my spine like the ocean still has its hand on it.

Black ballet has always existed, cultivated through talent, vision, and persistence even as its dancers were denied visibility. From Janet Collins’ defiance to Misty Copeland’s historic rise, Black artists have not entered ballet but expanded it, transforming a tradition rooted in exclusion into one capable of reflecting true humanity and shared authorship.

Lauren McCaskill explores Erykah Badu's iconic Mama's Gun and its resonance with today's culture- a timeless mirror for our spirit, our struggles and our healing

Our writer delves into the realm of Afrofuturism as it appears in the Diaspora.