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Two Americas, One Simulation.
What my daughter and I found in the nation's capital — on triple consciousness, TPS, and the manufactured instability of Haiti.
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A decade of essays from The Write Movement — 45 pieces spanning 2014 to today, restored from the archive.
2026
Op-Ed
Letter on MLK Day: “A Nation Still in Default”
On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I write with a reverence for Dr. King’s courage and with a disciplined disappointment that this nation still struggles t…
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Essay
Christmas Isn’t Our Holiday: Why Black People Deserve Makaya, Kwanzaa, and Holidays Rooted in Our Truth
Habari Gani?! For many Black people in the diaspora, the Christmas season arrives wrapped in glittering lights, gospel-infused carols, and warm gatherings st…
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Essay
The Hardest Love: Choosing Yourself First
By Empress Addi | The Empress Addi Podcast, Episode 7
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Essay
Reclaiming Voice in a World on Fire: The Sacred Power of Speaking Up in 2025
In a world that often tells us to be quiet, shrink, or assimilate—especially as Black women and women of spirit—there is radical power in speaking up.
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Op-Ed
Op-Ed: When They Come for Us — The Cruelty of Deportation and the Cost of Our Silence
I write this with the full force of fury, grief, and truth. Because what is happening to our Haitian and Latino brothers and sisters—at the hands of the U.S.…
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Podcast
EmpressAddi Podcast
“There comes a time—after the silence, after the storm—when we come back for our truth.”
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Essay
The Illusion Of Diversity Equity And Inclusion Perpetuating Oppression Of Black Women In The Workplace
This is an introduction to a scholarly article which promises to critically analyze the ways in which Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in t…
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Self Love And Advocacy Building A Workplace Culture Free Of Fear
This article is all about showing yourself some love and standing up for what's right, especially for all the amazing women out there in the workplace. We're…
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Embracing Your Journey Finding Your Path Through Self Love And Spirituality
In the hustle and bustle of modern life, it's easy to lose sight of who we truly are and what path we're meant to walk. We get caught up in the expectations…
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Essay
What Can We Learn From Ancient Egyptian Women
Who told you that you’re just a woman? Who made you feel like being confident was unseemly, or undesirable? Women have been at the center of judgment since t…
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Essay
Journey of a Guiding Light
The first step to finding your path is to know yourself. To know yourself-really know yourself necessitates divorcing from all the programming you’ve been gi…
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Essay
I Want To Save Black People
I'm going to begin this post with an apology-to myself for not recording my thoughts more often. At least, not throughout the summer. I mean, I've written. I…
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Essay
Sad Eyes
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Interview
Women Uncensored Interviews Rachel Spector On New Initiative By The Childrens Trustmiami Fl
On Thursday's Women Uncensored Raw Talk with Tico & Addi (on WSRF 1580AM, http://www.wsrf.com, at 6pm-8pm), we had the esteemed opportunity to interview Rach…
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Essay
Wisdom From The Elders
Human nature is a bird that only sees the seed.
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Essay
Ingratemiserable
You know someone who is always miserable.
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Essay
Space Protecting Your Energy
The space between you and others shorten with each interaction-social media check-in, message reading, text response, phone call answered, physical encounter…
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Essay
Identity: Human.Black.Haitian.Woman.
Black Haitian Consciousness: Self-Identity and Culture within the Context and Intersection with Western Philosophy
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Essay
My Niggah
“Whut up, my niggah!” Came the boisterous greeting from Carl to his best friend from Kindergarten as he approached him. He gave his friend the once over, stu…
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Numb Dumb
The question is valid. One term does not negate the other.
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The Attacker
Faded screams and yells melted into the rhythmic drumming in sync with the bloody fists pounding against Carolina’s head. Her vision blurred, and she faded i…
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Essay
Let It Burn
Winter solstice! People don't usually know its significance. But each of us, are astrologically aligned to let things die, burn, and renew ourselves and situ…
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Essay
To Love Self First
I had a conversation with an old friend today, about loving a person. We search for love in the most common places-never truly understanding all which it ent…
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Essay
Being Yourself
We've all heard the adage, be yourself. As if people have an alternate choice than being themselves. What someone really means when they tell another person…
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Essay
I Chilled With My 8 Year Old Self Last Night
I saw the gleam in her eyes first. She was short, but her slender appearance made her seem taller. Her dark chocolate skin shone and the sun’s rays bounced o…
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Real Girlfriends Is That Even Possible
Is it possible to have real girlfriends in 2010's?
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Surfing The Gains And Losses Of Students
As a professor, I come into contact with different people all the time. I always begin a term or semester with the promise to not become attached to my stude…
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The Journey With Creativity
And together, creatively, our journey will never be,
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Essay
Sabotaging Your Future With Fear
I have several fears. Fear of success is not one of them-or is it? I have a fear of NOT succeeding. I have a fear of growing old without a husband/partner. I…
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Pac Jam Reunion
I'm a Miami native. That could mean a lot of things depending on who you're speaking with. So, let me clarify by disclosing my neighborhood, and associations…
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Workplace Etiquette Easier Said Than Done
Don't worry about what your boss tells others about you…
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Tuesday Is For Thinking
Today Tuesday Thinking Thumping Thriving To Take Talents Terrifically Terrible Terribly Terrific To Torture Torment Though Today's Talent is…
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Love For Lingering Drumming
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/daily-prompt-linger/
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When The Great Mother Makes Waves
When the sky is dark in the early afternoon,
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The Movement Miamithe Mystical Side Of Things
The Movement Miami~the mystical side of things….
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New York Jews Raise Over Six Million Dollars What Of Negroes
The United Jewish campaign to raise $6,000,000 in Greater New York alone for the relief of Jews of Eastern Europe ended a few days ago. The amount was over-s…
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Essay
Are You Strong Enough To Quit Smoking Cigarettes
I’ve been smoking cigarettes on and off, for four years now. I like to smoke. I like the rush I feel when the smoke hits my brain and releases endorphins, wh…
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Are You Strong Enough To Quit Smoking Cigarettes 2
Are you strong enough to quit smoking cigarettes?.
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Essay
Life Is Love
Goddess of Love am I, keeper and giver of love
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Life is Love
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Essay
A Day In Life In Wynwood
It was a hot summer morning in June, and the sun had just made its break into the dark of dawn. The roosters crowed in syncopation, and the sound of the spr…
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Black Feminismcollaborative Heart
There are wide degrees of ideals and philosophies surrounding the term feminism. Feminism or to be a feminist has become (or always was) somewhat of a dirty…
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Highlight On Chief Professor Jim Babcock
Highlight on Chief, Professor Jim Babcock
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My Children Make Me Sick
So I'm not the best mother in the world. I have an administrative professional position at a non-profit, private university. I'm an artist, musician, singer,…
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From 78 Degrees To 11 Degrees The Art Of Flexibility
I flew from Miami, FL to Cleveland, OH on January 2nd for my 3rd Ph.D. residency which is being held at the Mets Center in Erlanger, KY. My friend and fellow…
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Selected Client Engagements
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