Alanah Davis is a Baltimore-based mother, cultural worker, community advocate, and social change and arts consultant. She earned her master’s degree in social design at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Davis is a Leslie King Hammond graduate fellow, Maryland Delaware and DC Press Association awardee with the Maryland Matters newsroom, and a 2021 recipient of the Fred Lazarus Leadership for Social Change award. Her written witticisms surrounding love, race, womanhood, and being a human have gone viral online in perfect millennial fashion and are also in print to match her old soul.
It’s the morning of Sept. 9, 2020, which means for Baltimore City Public Schools it’s the second day of school. My children are still…
Beyond and veggie burgers don’t taste like meat, and I’m not in denial about it anymore. Last week, after denying myself the delight of…
This morning I danced through my kitchen and took selfies celebrating everything about me — this is a common practice of mine. I spent…
Being purely driven by my desire to practice Sankofa from the Twi language of Ghana, meaning to go back and get it, I found…
I love going to the movies. My earliest memories of the movies are my mother using trips to see “The Lion King” or “Good…
When I was 14 and 9 months I took my first job at a noodle bar near my coming-of-age home in Owings Mills. It…