Like a typical millennial, I checked my social media accounts before I even got out of bed and brushed my teeth, this Sunday morning. As...

Look. Everyone has an opinion about this. Everyone wants some homogenized deference to a symbol. But there’s a root cause to this entire...

One major adversity I face in life is simply being different from everyone else. I struggle with my identity because of my race. What am...

Growing up as the “Token Asian,” I never stopped to consider the jokes at my expense. Slant-eyes, always smelling like fish, Pacific...

I must admit I don’t think I ever felt different until I was about 7 years old. Prior to that, I had always been surrounded by people...

I was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. My parents divorced when I turned five, and my mother, grandmother and I left...

The main reason I started The Echoes Blog was because I wanted us to share stories that might give us insight to how supremacy,...

I made a late-night trip to Prairie View A&M University to drop off my son’s room keys that he had forgotten at home. We discovered the...

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Wikipedia describes “toxic masculinity” as certain socially destructive standards or behavior among men in contemporary American and...