Fort Negrita Blog

i had a tough conversation with my haitian mother about trash in her hometown. she wanted me to have a miraculous answer to her hometown’s plastic problem and i was pretty stuck because the simple fixes aren’t real fixes and the real solutions are insurmountable for one person to solve. she started by telling me about the plastic waste in haiti (which is a prevalent dilemma in most developing countries). in a small town in haiti, where waste mgmt (pick up trucks and landfills) are non existent, the visibility if your everyday habits (mostly plastic) sit in your front yard and taunt you...

one taught me love, one taught me patience, one taught me pain. really tho! lol   i'm starting to prep for @blackmomsblog 'period party" on january 6, come out atlanta! and i'm pulling more books for my mini-library. these books changed my life, and i carry these books with me to every pad party, and that's because i hope they will offer to others what they have offered to me.  i'm going to start with the book that taught me love, and that's sisters of the yam, if something ever knew i needed it more that i knew myself, it was...

today was a day for writing letters to incarcerated loved ones. with the arrests of the gangstas to growers youth, and the passing of my great grandfather, i have been wanting to write my uncle bruce a letter to check in on him and get information about my lineage for my family archives. also this week resurfaced the unfair story of cyntoia brown. both my uncle bruce and cyntoia pulled on me to write letters to people in prison. writing letters to people in prison lets them know they are not alone. although they are around prison-mates and facility staff,...

  see full article on the plug daily A recent report by the United Nations noted human activity and rising greenhouse gases as a factor contributing to a potential global crisis in 2040. That’s why for nearly a decade, I’ve been committed to finding a sustainable solution to the stubborn longevity of modern plastics. And during the past year, after a five year-long scientific discovery process, my team of researchers at Tuskegee derived an innovative new process that can radically change our dependence on petroleum-based plastics that are detrimental to our natural environment. We devised a scientific process for taking cellulose, material...

lennox mall is really the epitome of atlanta life. where else can yoou find a metro pcs, a fendi store, a place you can order lemon pepper wings, and local boutique full of lame decor with "virginia-Highlands" on it.  malls get me thinking a lot about consumerism (be a conscious consumer) and even more than that, human behaviors.  the carelessness that is outlet storesbecause having to face that fact that you overproduced last season's catalog, would mean you would have a cluttered stored and not enough space for new items. you rent another storefront, in the same mall, for the old...