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30 Days in Conversation with 30 Black Activists and Storytellers
A portrait and a letter a day to our monumental black figures
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Kayla Mary Jane Marisin
Jun 10, 20202 min read
W.E.B. DuBois, your initiative has taught me inventiveness.
Those who have met you personally recall your stature and brilliance. You were a fierce man, with the mind of a worldly scholar. You...
Kayla Mary Jane Marisin
Jun 9, 20203 min read
Maya Angelou, you taught me to be graceful, and grateful.
You were such a light, a true star that walked amongst us and for your presence, I am truly thankful. I was speaking with my older sister...
Kayla Mary Jane Marisin
Jun 8, 20203 min read
John Lewis, from you I have learned the truth to freedom.
To learn that you were heavily demonstrative in the Civil Rights Movement alongside Martin Luther King was astounding. The idea to...
Kayla Mary Jane Marisin
Jun 7, 20202 min read
Nina Simone, oh to be young, gifted and black.
The opportunities are endless, the potentiality is limitless, but why must it be stolen? Why must it be robbed from us, our brothers and...
Kayla Mary Jane Marisin
Jun 6, 20202 min read
Harry Belafonte, mi waan guh home.
Having spent your early years in Jamaica, your mother's native island, it is said that witnessing the White English oppression against...
Kayla Mary Jane Marisin
Jun 5, 20204 min read
Malcolm X, to you I write as a proud black woman
No one could ever hold a conversation with the vigor and unadornment like you with an ignorant white man. "What is your real name?"...
Kayla Mary Jane Marisin
Jun 4, 20202 min read
Harriet Tubman, from you, I have learned what constitutes being profound.
It is a crazy thing to try and grasp the reality of being born into slavery. Having to be born into a hard life from the beginning,...
Kayla Mary Jane Marisin
Jun 3, 20203 min read
Patrisse, Alicia, and Opal, I am met with a fire.
Freedom Fighters has a powerful ring to it. A term harboring individuals serving in a collective doing God's work. A collective still...
Kayla Mary Jane Marisin
Jun 2, 20203 min read
Bryan Stevenson, because of you I look for service.
Your dedicated life's work was just that, dedicated. Its beginning was not off to a pleasant nor welcoming start in meeting those on...
Kayla Mary Jane Marisin
Jun 1, 20204 min read
Angela Davis, to you I write first.
Growing up in Alabama, one of the hardest states to, during the 50s has to definitely be part of why you feel so passionate towards the...
Kayla Mary Jane Marisin
Jun 1, 20202 min read
Right Now
We as a people are encountering the fight of this decade for our rights that white supremacists still refuse us after more than one...
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