(Article first published in DUNIA print magazine, Summer 2018 Edition) It’s much easier to believe that history belongs to posterity as a no-nonsense chronological record. […]
Arab Fitness Model MAYA NASSAR is Shattering The Glass Ceiling & Pushing Boundaries In Inspiring Ways
(Cover Story, first published in DUNIA print magazine, Winter 2017 Edition) Most people perceive Arab women as timid, docile, suppressed and fully covered. Most don’t even […]
I am Chisom – New Name, New Direction
Denver Beaulieu-Hains plays the talking drum at the Igbo Village at in Staunton, Va. The Frontier Culture Museum has a complete traditional Igbo compound and […]
Healthy-living, Wellness and Dance Africa-style: Awakening to African-American Identity
For more than 10 years, I took about 12 pills per day. I was diagnosed with everything from Fibromyalgia, the trash-bucket diagnosis given when illnesses […]
Chance Meeting and Ethnic Shift: Awakening to my African-American Identity
Before I set in on some very difficult themes, I’d like to introduce myself. I’m an Army-trained journalist, civil-servant, and well-traveled, single-parent mother of three. […]