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Beer Drinking Bros Versus An Ancient Native and Black Cemetery

4 min readJun 3, 2021

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Beer Drinking Bros Versus An Ancient Native and Black Cemetery

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The Covid-19 Job Pivot: Black Women Prep For New Gigs

We’re not going back to “normal.”

4 min readMay 12, 2021

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The Covid-19 Job Pivot: Black Women Prep For New Gigs

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Black Girls in Trader Joe’s Normalizes Shopping In Niche Grocery Stores

‘Never should — in 2021 — a Black woman ever feel uncomfortable going to a store that provides a service or a product that is essential’

5 min readMar 3, 2021

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Black Girls in Trader Joe’s Normalizes Shopping In Niche Grocery Stores

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It’s Time to Shut Down Plantation Weddings and Rethink Plantation Tourism

Are we close to reconciling the relationship between horrific history, capitalism, weddings, and slavery?

6 min readAug 10, 2020

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It’s Time to Shut Down Plantation Weddings and Rethink Plantation Tourism

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The Lineage of ‘Lemonade’

From Ma Rainey to Beyoncé, here are the ladies who tell it how it is

6 min readJun 24, 2020

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The Lineage of ‘Lemonade’

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The True Story Behind ‘Freedom,’ the Peak Black Girl Song of the 1990s

Queen Latifah, Vanessa Williams, Angie Stone, Aaliyah, and Joi were among the artists who sang the lead track from 1995’s ‘Panther’

8 min readMay 21, 2020

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We All Have the Same Therapist

Six degrees of separation doesn’t always exist for women of color searching for a mental health professional

6 min readDec 18, 2019

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We All Have the Same Therapist

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Alisha Tillery

My Year of Yes

In just a bit, it’ll be a new year. As usual, folks are buzzing about their resolutions, goals and such, reflecting on the last 364 days…

4 min readJan 11, 2016

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BEYONCE Turns Two, Still Flawless

Two years ago today I was sleeping peacefully in my bed when my eyes popped open sometime around 1 a.m. I couldn’t go back to sleep, so I…

4 min readDec 13, 2015

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BEYONCE Turns Two, Still Flawless

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Alisha Tillery

Chasing Andre

On Thanksgiving Eve Erykah Badu dropped “Hello,” a collaboration with her old love and artistic spirit animal, Andre 3000, and the Internet…

4 min readDec 1, 2015

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Chasing Andre

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Alisha Tillery

Alisha Tillery

I love words, music and jokes. I write. @clutchmagazine, @EBONYMag, @xojanedotcom & others. PR pro by day, writer always. Reach me at Alisha.Tillery@Gmail.com

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