Civil Rights & Social Justice

Imagine opening your bank account and realizing a stranger has been authorized to swipe your debit card whenever they feel like buying a coffee, a meal, or a new pair …

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), …

  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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

The year is 2026. So-called leaders, writers, the academic class, news media, medical groups, and organizations are calling women’s rights groups, shelters, and activists “anti-rights” for asserting women’s rights? For …

Affirmation: My body belongs to me. My voice matters. My boundaries are worthy of respect. I do not have to surrender my comfort, safety, or dignity to make someone else …

For generations, women have been told they were imagining “it.” You can fill in the blank for millions of untold “it” things. “If you speak up, you’re difficult.” “If you …