Dana Amihere founded AfroLA in 2022 and serves as executive director. She is a proud Southerner who moved with her husband and spirited German Shepherd to Los Angeles in 2018. Hot take: It’s pee-can, not pe-cahn.
Good friends are hard to find and harder to keep: The people who become family, the ones you fight to keep, and the friend who finds you when you least expect it.
Loving him is easy. Protecting my Blackness is the hard part.
Falling in love with a white man was the easy part. Protecting my Blackness, my pride, and my sense of self inside that marriage is the work nobody warned me about.
Menopause officially starts after one full year without a period. But for Black women, the changes can begin earlier, last longer, and come with a lot less guidance than we need—or deserve.
