Black Women

Black women are not “overreacting”—we are responding to what our bodies have been forced to carry for generations. The pressure to ignore racism, to stay composed, to be endlessly strong …

You can’t force moral concern by disrespecting another group.That contradiction collapses your message. This use of blackface (actually carrying it out by smearing yourself. Not debating, as we all do. …

You saw it too. I was watching clips from Jesse Jackson’s homegoing service. Then all of a sudden, people who openly despised this man and ALL that he stood for …

Across social media and public conversations, there is a pattern many Black women recognize immediately. When a crisis emerges somewhere in the world, voices appear demanding that Black women: organize …

Across social media and in political spaces, there is no shortage of advice directed at Black women. People encourage us to: speak more about this issue speak less about that …

  updated from November 18 2025 If the harm is sex-specific, the language has to be sex-specific.Especially for Black women.Especially in maternal health.   Black women have always understood the …

  updated from February 1, 2025 Music is healing. Music is power. Music has the power to change the world.   On many, many, many a day when danger, threats, …

Celia   updated from September 20 2023 1. (1855) Celia was a slave girl who was tried and executed for killing her enslaver after enduring years of rape.   2. …

  updated from November 9 2024 Never forgetting the pioneering mothers of environmental justice and those who identified its roots in racism. She Said: “If we want a safe environment …

“Institutionally, we still don’t understand what inclusion means. Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don’t provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in …