Candice FortmanReady for Love: I Need Some Sugar inRealizing you’re ready for love is one thing but putting action and words towards it takes a bit of courage and lots of patience.Feb 23, 2022Feb 23, 2022
Candice FortmaninJSK Class of 2021Faith is not a Business PlanFor journalism to have a future, it must broaden its definition of audienceDec 2, 2020Dec 2, 2020
Candice FortmanMy application to study “journalism business models to fuel information in low-wealth communities”…I was so inspired when Lewis Wallace published their application for Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. It was transparency in action. I…Aug 25, 2020Aug 25, 2020
Candice FortmanFinding Simplicity Yet AgainThe older we get, the more life begins to feel as if it is tightening up around us. You feel the suffocation of responsibilities. We…Oct 9, 2019Oct 9, 2019
Candice FortmanWhat My Grandparents Taught and Untaught Me about LoveA few months ago, I found a videotape from my grandparents’ 40th wedding anniversary. It took me up until last week to find the strength…Aug 30, 20192Aug 30, 20192
Candice FortmanToo fat to be lovedLast Sunday, at a storytelling event in Detroit — The Speakeasy, I shared a story about the time a man told me he couldn’t date me (after…Jul 29, 2019Jul 29, 2019
Candice FortmanA Compilation of AbuseYesterday I watched a compilation video of people finding out they would soon become grandparents. It brought me to shambles knowing that…Sep 26, 2018Sep 26, 2018
Candice FortmanIn Remembrance of Aretha Franklin and the Power of the Female Voices of the Black ChurchGrowing up a Black girl raised by her southern grandparents in 1980s Detroit, the sound of the Baptist church choir is as much a part of my…Aug 16, 20181Aug 16, 20181
Candice FortmanWhy I Still Get Out of BedWhen my mother died (10 years ago this week) one of the hardest things in the world for me to do starting almost immediately was finding…Apr 3, 2018Apr 3, 2018