Category: Weekly Newsletter

This week’s song has me spinning around. Plus, the name of this newsletter is inspired by my 2018 Reader’s Survey. Please fill it out and let me know who you are, how I’m doing and if you’d like to pitch in to keep the lights on over here. I am borderline obsessed with airports Many… Continue reading Weekly Newsletter for Week of August 12, 2018– Do I Really Know You?

I’m considering not being an urbanist anymore.  I know, shocking.  Honestly, like in times past, it comes from seeing all the hurt and pain the mass development machine has inflicted over the past few years, as well as looking at the history of urbanization across the world. Oh, and taking more pride in my Southeastern… Continue reading The Black Urbanist Weekly–Me Versus the Machine–Week of July 23, 2018

Yes, this is activism. Not the only kind, but enough of a kind. Last newsletter I spoke about the thunder and lightening of anxiety and depression. I’ve done this before, but the recent celebrity ones made me want to dig in a bit more. This letter, I want to speak to one key thing that… Continue reading Weekly Newsletter–Week of June 26, 2018– Media Allied

Our cities, our lives, are depressing sometimes. Trigger warning for discussion of depression and how folks cope with it, namely me. Those of you who have followed my work over the years know that I’m no stranger to the struggles of anxiety and depression. Or maybe you didn’t know and wondered why I would disappear… Continue reading The Black Urbanist Weekly Newsletter–Week of June 11, 2018–Seeing Through the Clouds

So we are halfway(ish) through 2018!!! Welcome to the blog post edition of my weekly newsletter! Right now, if you read both the email version and the blog version of this letter, you’ll notice that things are slightly different. Namely this opening section and a few other things, like typos, misspellings, wrong information (like the… Continue reading Weekly Newsletter–June 3, 2018–Halfwayish through 2018? More or Less Traveled?

I am writing this from the kitchen table of my teenhood home. Yes, I’m right back again on what was a planned trip home to celebrate one of my cousins who is following in my footsteps and graduating from the Department of Communication at N.C. State University. I’m not going to lie. I miss it… Continue reading The Black Urbanist Weekly Newsletter–Graduation or Commencement?

Hello From Where it All Began, But The End of this Journey… Also known as my teen-hood home (but it’s 9 p.m. Monday so I’m technically back in Baltimore). I thought I’d be writing this from the plane home from my excellent and life-changing speaking tour and you’d get this on Wednesday the 25th. And I planned on… Continue reading Weekly Newsletter, April 29, 2018 — A Tour of Cities, A Gratitude for For You

It’s time for my weekly email! A few weeks ago, I decided to move my email over to a new provider, InfusionSoft. In addition, I decided that since I’m doing this blog and other parts of Kristen Jeffers Media full-time right now, there’s no reason why I can’t send you guys a letter every week.… Continue reading [Weekly Email] Fish Houses and Future Cities of Our New Administration