​Shamaiye Haynes is running for NAACP President and she deserves your ear. I met Ms. Haynes some years back as we tried to detangle ourselves from the educational haze that is sometimes felt in Charlotte. She has a glorious presence; an Angela Davis crown and red lip stick to show she doesn’t play around.&nbs...

By Dearest PriceCopyright Agape VoiceI often wondered why I had such a light complexion in comparison to the rest of my family. My evidence has long been buried and the beautiful amber and indigo hues incapsulating my tribe was recognized uncannily. I never been in a high office where anyone ever cared if I was Black. But I was often called names a...

By Dearest Price Copyright Agape VoiceThe President has the deadly disease that he has denied. And as many say this is a hoax, Meliana continues to ride. He refused mask wearing and half the country took his side. Mr. President don't you realize even your own Herman Cain has died. I'm mad at this man yet I pray for him everyday. I'm not ignoring th...

America's Lynching Tree By Dearest PriceCopyright Agape VoicePhoto of Laura Nelson, 19112020 was the first year I dealt with death more than life. It was the year I was made to sit in the feces of my own strife. It was the time that I was forced to mask up yet fight for my own. It was digging deep for God cause living for this earth you are truly a...

"I am not gonna be vulgar or waste your time. I am just here to school you that my vagina is mine." You see the oppression of women in days past and today is truly hard to stomach. The discouragement of feminism while misogyny still ravages our communities is perplexing. And while many churches preach the man as the head, I am still waiting for man...

This is personal, so personal, you leaving my dear, The representation of royalty was presented from you, crystal clear In a time where they didn't want us to love the Black Man, In a time of brutality, incarceration you came through Black Man, Giving us hope, giving us a template of what we were called to be, Showing us glory in melanin, For ...

Forty Eight years after Congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm’s unprecedented Presidential run, we still are fighting about race and gender in America and within our own communities. Congresswoman Chisholm ran in 1972, the year I was born. She had the audacity to jump in a race less than a decade after the end of segregation. She had ...

​Michelle Obama touched me tonight with her DNC speech. All I can say is “empathy”. What a teacher she is. Her intellect, her beauty, her compassion reminds me of my sister who I adore. She is tall and graceful like my beautiful daughter and has the compassion and sensibility of my mother. As I read some of the reviews of her speech, I wa...

What is Black? Black is the complete absorption of light. And “absorb” means to take in. Such a beautiful definition for a people that have been put down for so long. And globally Blackness can not be defined by western standards nor agreed upon by those with hues of brown. Western standards removes our melanin and breaks it down based on ster...

One of my proudest moments as a Black Woman in America was to watch a television icon, that didn't look like Rihanna nor have the body of Cardi B. put thousands of Black Men through Morehouse College. Going to an HBCU myself, that meant something. She looked like my Auntie. She had big feet and a wide nose with coarse thick beautiful hair to match....

By Missy Reid Norris Gaffney is a City full of Pride and Tradition. This is a City where future generations return to raise the next generation. My name is Millicent (Missy) Reid Norris, and I care about our community, its economic future, and sustainability. Together we must maintain strong public safety; establish long and short term objectives a...

A man contemplates suicides at the edge of a cliff in the darkness of night. His pain is far beyond sadness and grief. "Lord I am ready to go, I am so alone", he thought. His tears blind him to how close he is to the edge, as rocks easily slip away from the movement of his feet. Yet just like everyday, sunlight breaks some of the sorrow and he soon...

Black People, before this election we must read. We must read some of the horrible rhetoric coming out of white people's mouths from the very people who call themselves fellow Americans. We must read how the fight against taking a knee has always been about a sense of losing white control and not about disrespecting anything in this country. W...

 That Black Woman By Dearest PriceCopyright Agape Voice Pillow Talks LLCI've been That Black Woman who passed your tests, That Black Woman that got no rest, That Black Woman to pay your bills, That Black Woman that didn't club but sat still. I've been That Black Woman to let you use my car, That Black Woman that told you, you were a star, That...

We was homeless for almost a year; a year without a place to call our own. Me and Bae grinding; not much to laugh about. Yet each lousy hotel had one thing in common and that was “Wild n Out”. Yes Cable!!! You see I am not much of a TV watcher but my dude knew what he liked and marathon after marathon go...

By Brutha WayneBlessings!!!! My name is Dwayne Bronson and I am the Owner and Operator of Sincerely YourZ Transport LLC. We began our business in 2019 with an old truck and trailer which both were gifted to us by few people that believed in our business. We are “Disruptive Innovators” which means we prov...

 "Keep Your Competition Close" By Dearest PriceCopyright Agape VoiceI have individuals on the team asking me if I am concerned with so many Black Business groups emerging on social media due to these perilous times. Am I "big mad" being tagged to Black this and Black that. Don't I cringe when I see someone attempt to do what I do? I say, "hell...

By Dearest Price Beloved said its morning; get up, wash and rise, Beloved said, today is going to be extraordinary, I see it in your eyes, Beloved said, girl you are beautiful, you deserve to win, Beloved said, lift your head up, I'll see you to the end.Beloved smelled the vast bed of roses on that day, Beloved smelled the green in the grass where ...

“ I am willing to disagree but I am not willing to hate. On the anniversary of the Charleston Church Murders your rhetoric is sad but held by many. I will pray for you. I will not call you names. I will even be responsive to a certain point because our interaction exposes who you are. Why can't you see if it was up to the confederacy I would still ...

My Protests Are Not Peaceful, They Are Invisible By Dearest PriceCopyright Agape VoiceMy protests are not peaceful because few have said her name, her Blackness kept dying in battle but only he claimed the fame. We can see it, we have rehearsed it, since the beginning of time, and when you called God a "He" it had to completely blow her mind. (Numb...