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.
Brain fog is real, it is measurable, and for most of us it is temporary. Here is what is normal, what is worth a phone call, and a free guide to take to your doctor.
My mother wrote papers on an electric typewriter while I studied spelling words. My grandparents never finished school and taught me everything that mattered. So what does it actually mean to be educated?
You love this place more than it will ever love you back
Nobody had to tell me this one. I told myself: I loved that place more than it would ever love me back. Three days later I incorporated my own company.
Grandma’s house becomes Mom’s house, and one day it becomes yours. Nobody warns us about the weight of that seat — or the neighborhood Mama who shows you how to fill it.
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.
