A Purpose-Driven Life by Eisa Nefertari Ulen. Photographs by Sheryl Nields. Our perennially favorite actress touches base with her roots in time for her ever-expanding circle of life. Published November 2011; ebony.com; pages 91-94.

An edited version of this article appeared in the September 2011 issue of Ebony magazine. From Postnatal to Pre-K: Boost Your Baby’s Brain Power With the rush to compete in a global economy, too manyContinue reading

Protecting Our Girls from Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Heart and Soul Magazine, April/May 2010 Article by Denene Millner Special Report: State of Our Girls Includes article by Eisa Ulen (pgs. 61-64)

In a grainy, black and white video, a cluster of men shifts from one end of the screen to another. They could be laughing, roughhousing, or hugging. In seconds, the blur of bodies separates, andContinue reading

New York City public hospitals, the largest municipal hospital system in the nation, are emphasizing the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding 10 years after international health authorities began to stress the importance of breastfeeding globally. TheContinue reading

Appeared in The Crisis magazine, Winter 2008 Black folk love sex. They crave it so much, they can’t get enough. They need it in their music, need it in their music videos. Need it soContinue reading

Gen X at the NBWC Presented for the panel “The National Black Writers Conference: Creating a Historical Record in Black Letters,” AWP Conference in New York (2008) The National Black Writers Conference has offered aContinue reading

At the junior high school across the street from my Brooklyn apartment, girls still claim an empowered dominion over the spaces they occupy. At their desks, through the halls, along the tree-lined streets after 3:00,Continue reading

What Happened to Your Generation’s Promise of “Love and Revolution”? Dear Ms. Davis, You know my father. You know my mother. They know you. And your sister Fania. Daddy helped you slip through Pennsylvania whenContinue reading

Perspectives from an African American Muslim Woman Feminist Written by Eisa Nefertari Ulen From Lee Gutkind’s Creative Nonfiction Living Issue Project, July 2002 I walk with women draped in full-length fabric. We swirl through theContinue reading

– Essence Magazine, January 2002 “If We Forget Our Shared Experience as People of Color, If We Cower From One Another Because Some of Us Don’t Know or Understand Islam, We Acquiesce to More Death,Continue reading

– Photographer and Breast Cancer Warrior Essence Magazine, September 2001 She looked it in the eye, showed its face on film. Breast cancer took photographer Mfon Essien’s life, but not her beauty or her soul.Continue reading