Category: Black Women

Gratitude to Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
updated from February 1, 2025
Music is healing.
Music is [...]

Celia: How an Enslaved Girl Continues to Inform Black Women’s Work to End Violence Against Women
Celia
updated from September 20 2023 1. (1855) Celia w [...]

Mother of Environmental Justice: Hazel M. Johnson
updated from November 9 2024
Never forgetting the pioneerin [...]

Stop Calling It ‘Inclusion’ If You Aren’t Providing ‘Safety’ for ALL
"Institutionally, we still don't understand what inclusion means. Just [...]

Sister Souljah â The 1992 Moment That Shifted Political Language
Forget the people telling you: "There was racial harmony before we had [...]

The Insidious Nature of Racial Stress
Many Black people have endured generations of:
âItâs not that bad.ââY [...]

Affirmed: Protect Your Power and Disengage From People Who Plant Self-Doubt
updated from January 20 2025 This week, I wish you success in dis [...]

Nell Carter: A Voice That Refused to Break
When I was a child, Nell Carter was one of my favorite entertainers. S [...]

Stop Calling It âRace Baitingâ: Black Maternal Death Is a Life-or-Death Reality (podcast episode)
Black women speaking about maternal death are not ârace baitin [...]

On WESurviveAbuse Book Shelf: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance- A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (10 min audio)
Title: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, [...]