Author: Tonya GJ Prince
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The Double Standard: Why Black Women Carry Everyone Else’s Accountability
Some people judge Black women as if influence comes with a lifetime wa [...]

Women Healing Among One Another is Not Hate (audio short)
Can human rights organizations protect multiple groups without asking [...]

How a Network of Black Women Educators Secretly Organized a Revolution
Who Were the Women of the WPC?
Founded in Montgomery in 1946 by Mary [...]

The Missing Skill in Violence Prevention: Contextual Intelligence
When leaders simplify complex human lives to make policy easier, the [...]

Why Dismissing Boundaries Around the “N-Word” is a Form of Cultural Gaslighting
In the advocacy space, we talk constantly about boundaries. We tal [...]

Georgia Gilmore: How Black Women Outsmarted Jim Crow with Fish Frys
Fine. I will do it myself. -Black women's proverb
Black women despise [...]

When History Becomes Pressure: How Black Women Are Asked to Carry More
If learning about the burdens carried by Black women yesterday becomes [...]

Shame Has Never Been a Substitute for Justice
I deeply despise stories that depict women finding their way t [...]

Survivor Mary Lumpkin: The Woman Who Turned a Place of Pain Into a Place of Promise
Before history knew her as a symbol, Mary Lumpkin was a w [...]

The World Has Studied Women’s Reactions More Than Men’s Actions
The people carrying the pain and the burdens are often the people le [...]