WATER LOGS

Lost Legends of the Sea: Black Caesar [essay]

Summary: This essay explores the life of Black Caesar, an African warrior turned pirate who ruled the Florida Keys in the early 1700s, and draws a powerful connection to the ongoing...

Colored Sands [poem]

they threw “colored” like a stone but we caught it, turned it into goldamber suns, copper skies,bronze roots deep as the tide underfoot, jewels in the sandpassed down hand to...

The Rise of AI: Afrocentric Illumination [essay]

Summary: In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, Afrocentric Illumination invites us to turn inward—trusting ancestral wisdom, protecting our humanity, and resisting digital erasure. While AI accelerates, we are...

Donald Krueger: The Nightmare on Main Street [e...

Summary: The beach was our introduction. Before streets had names, before cities swallowed the land whole, we met America at the water’s edge. The shore was not soft with welcome...

Juneteenth on the Fourth [essay]

Summary: We challenge the traditional celebration of July 4th by highlighting that Black Americans were not free in 1776 and thus have little reason to view it as their true...

The Sacred Return to Water [essay]

Summary : Explore the often-overlooked legacy of Black midwives as cultural guardians and spiritual healers—particularly in coastal communities where the ocean, moon, and ancestral knowledge converged. From water births and...