Some people judge Black women as if influence comes with a lifetime warranty on another person’s integrity… This is not a defense of Oprah specifically, but there’s a pattern here …
Tonya GJ Prince
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DECEPTIONAffirmationsBlack WomenCelebrity/FameManipulationRED FLAGSWomanism/FeminismWomenWomen's Rights
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Women Healing Among One Another is Not Hate (audio short)
Can human rights organizations protect multiple groups without asking women and girls to disappear? It truly bothered me that Amnesty took aim at a woman’s shelter and services that were …
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Abuse of PowerAdvocates/ActivistsBlack WomenCivil Rights & Social JusticeHerstory/HistoryJustice is Authentic LovePolitical ActionPowerViolationWomanism/FeminismWomenWomen's Rights
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 Fair Burks, an English professor at the historically Black Alabama State College (now Alabama State University), …
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10 Lessons “The Hate U Give” Teaches Us About Seeing, Hearing, and Protecting Girls
The most dangerous thing adults can do to a child is not always hurting them directly. Sometimes it is failing to see them clearly. Sometimes it is hearing their …
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Why Dismissing Boundaries Around the “N-Word” is a Form of Cultural Gaslighting
Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother’s son, we who believe in …
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Georgia Gilmore: How Black Women Outsmarted Jim Crow with Fish Frys
Fine. I will do it myself. -Black women’s proverb Black women despise the necessity of having to fight, but …elite fighters we have been and elite fighters we will be. …
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When History Becomes Pressure: How Black Women Are Asked to Carry More
If learning about the burdens carried by Black women yesterday becomes another reason we are expected to carry everyone today, then the lesson has been turned upside down. Pain should …
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HealingMental Wellness and HealingMental Wellness and HealthSelf careSelf LoveSelf WorthWomanism/FeminismWomenWomen's Rights
Shame Has Never Been a Substitute for Justice
I deeply despise stories that depict women finding their way through to the other side of sex work or a season of promiscuity as being synonymous with change for the …
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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 woman. She was a mother. A Survivor. A person whose life carried both unimaginable hardship and extraordinary strength. Mary Lumpkin …
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The World Has Studied Women’s Reactions More Than Men’s Actions
The people carrying the pain and the burdens are often the people least heard Those with the most protection do not get to dictate the survival choices of those who …