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jonetta rose barras
Nov 264 min read
Give A Little, Achieve A Lot
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” Stella Adler Dear Friend, AS you know, for 20 years,...
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jonetta rose barras
Oct 83 min read
Healing, Light & Growth
OCTOBER 2024 NE WSLETTER ESTHER TALKS “The discipline of creation, be...
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jonetta rose barras
Jan 316 min read
Why I Teach Ebony Visions and Cowrie Shell Dreams: Black Storytelling and Children’s Literature Across the Generations
IN 1967, after a four-month stint in corporate America, I announced to my supervisor that the job was not my suit of clothes. She was...
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jonetta rose barras
Dec 12, 20239 min read
DISCOVERY SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED
ON December 9, 2023 three young ladies from the Washington Metropolitan Region were chosen by a team of prestigious judges as recipients...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 30, 20234 min read
TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON
IN the morning from my balcony, I look out at the expanse of trees. October opens with them beginning to change colors—a sprinkle of gold...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 14, 20232 min read
On Starting College and Letting Go of High School
I have survived my second week of college. If you had asked me last month if that was something I thought myself capable of doing, I...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 14, 20237 min read
Ruth Simmons' Hardscrabble journey from East Texas to elite higher education
WHEN the galley for Ruth J. Simmons’ memoir — Up Home: One Girl’s Journey — arrived in my mailbox a few months ago, I couldn’t wait to...
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jonetta rose barras
Jul 15, 20235 min read
The Importance of Self Care (Even When Not On Vacations)
I recall awaking a few weeks ago to the feeling of my plush comforter wrapped around my body and the sound of Northern Mockingbirds...
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jonetta rose barras
May 17, 20235 min read
ON TURNING EIGHTEEN
IN exactly five months and eighteen days from the time I’m writing this, I will be eighteen years old. Like many other starry-eyed young...
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jonetta rose barras
Apr 12, 20233 min read
The Resurrection Message
DO you sometimes feel as if you’ve become caught in quicksand and it’s impossible to pull yourself out. Each time you move, the deeper...
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jonetta rose barras
Apr 8, 20233 min read
The Education System I’m Leaving Behind
NEAR the end of February, a student was accosted by an armed robber at the bus stop looking to steal his Airpods not even 500 feet away...
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jonetta rose barras
Feb 3, 20233 min read
AN EMPTY BOOK?
HAVE you ever opened a book, started reading, and had zero to no idea what you were reading? Maybe there were even a few missing pages. ...
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jonetta rose barras
Jan 16, 20238 min read
Confidence in the Age of Tik Tok
A Breakdown of the App’s Beauty Standards and Accepting Your Appearance in the Age of Un-naturalism I want you to forget about whatever...
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jonetta rose barras
Jan 8, 20233 min read
Survival of the Fittest
IN Science class, I've learned about natural selection and how it causes animals to adapt and evolve to their environment using inherited...
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jonetta rose barras
Jan 8, 20234 min read
AN ANOMALY NO MORE
MY mother has bestowed upon me many advantageous lessons in the form of beatings, groundings, and neglect. "You need to learn to be okay...
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jonetta rose barras
Oct 9, 20222 min read
‘My Relationship With Fatherless Daughter-ness’
FOR the longest time, I prided myself on not being like the other fatherless daughters—the ones whose symptoms are ridiculed and...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 6, 20223 min read
Words that Heal and Propel
Reconciliation. That is a word we, at Esther Productions Inc., often speak. We understand its power. Trauma. That’s another word we...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 5, 20223 min read
LAST CALL… SORTA
AUGUST 29th, 2022 marked the first day of my senior year of high school--my last first day of grade school. I’d prayed for so long for...
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jonetta rose barras
Jul 10, 20224 min read
Reflecting on my rights
DURING the first month of 2020, I remember seeing lighthearted tweets hoping for a return to the glitz, glamour, and supposed “freedom”...
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jonetta rose barras
Mar 4, 20223 min read
We Remember Even as We Try to Forget
WHEN I wrote my book, Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl? The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women, I realized that so many...
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