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Black, disabled, nonbinary author, poet, journalist, professor and Third Culture Adult Shayla Lawson has released a new must-read text: “How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir.”

Change is everywhere. Raise your hand if, in early 2020, you worried that the COVID-19 global pandemic would last for . . . months! Fast forward to today (over two years later), and most of us realize the “before times” […]

Nadia Owusu is an author and Third Culture Kid (TCK) who has lived in five countries as a child. She reflects on her experiences and hardships in her memoir “Aftershocks.” Among us everyday are people who have survived and lived […]

Edwidge Danticat is an award-winning Haitian-American novelist that has turned her TCK experience into a flourishing career. Stories are what bring people together across all walks of life. Every story is unique and worth telling, but this is especially true […]

Actress Julianne Moore has been in copious amounts of films since she began acting in 1985. Appearing in more than 80 movies, Moore has made a name for herself globally. Before she made it on the big screen, one of […]

Grief can slap you in the face with shock, jolt you awake with terror, or knock you into an emotional coma. It can also bore you to tears, make you pee your pants laughing and even awaken your sexual desires. […]

Terry McMillan, author of Who Asked You, Waiting to Exhale, and other fiction and non-fiction books, spoke about her work to a rapt audience in Northern Colorado this February. As a black woman, McMillan writes stories based on African American characters, as […]