By Elliott Potter and Jake Potter Elliott Potter and his son Jake Potter live roughly 100 miles apart in North Carolina. After going together on a recent trip to Florida for music and beach therapy, Elliott and Jake wrote a series of personal reflections on the...
By Dana Marlowe As we march into Pride month, I Support the Girls is lifting up transgender and non-binary visibility and beauty while pointing out there is a heartbreaking connection between being transgender and being without stable housing: Twenty percent of trans people experience homelessness. According to...
By Tiffany Rucker, MBA Motherhood is one of the most amazing experiences of a woman’s life. It is also one of the hardest. The transition from singlehood to motherhood is one of the least talked about. When a woman becomes pregnant, all the focus goes towards the...
By Katie Day I am a wife, mother, entrepreneur and lover of travel. I have a 10-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son. I was married as a young adult, so let us just say I have been married for a while. I have had my own business,...
By Anna M.A. Stracey Naomi, my daughter, started walking when she was 10 months old. She began dancing at 18 months. She loved to twirl to the Nutcracker, loved to watch ballerinas on television. Naomi went to ballet class for the first time when she was...
By Alexia McKay It’s 2021, and representation still matters—perhaps more than ever. I don’t consider myself to be the poster image for all young, Black women. However, as a Black journalist—and now publisher—I do consider my position as a small corner of a larger picture that...
By Elliott Potter April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This is part of a series featuring services offered for child-abuse survivors at the Child Advocacy Center of Onslow County in Jacksonville, N.C. When it comes to helping children through the investigations of physical, sexual and...
By Elliott Potter April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This is part of a series featuring services offered for child-abuse survivors at the Child Advocacy Center of Onslow County in Jacksonville, N.C. In Onslow County in southeastern North Carolina, the Child Advocacy Center is the hub...
By Patricia Daly When I retired in 2011, I wanted to fulfill a long-suppressed desire to nurture my spiritual development and love of writing that had been put on hold for decades. I joined a writing group of friends and began sharing spiritual stories with them. After...
By Tiffany Rucker, MBA Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. --African and Chinese Proverb It all started with a conversation about summer. My then 14-year-old son, Jeremiah, sat me down and...