Civil Rights & Social Justice

What does it really mean to protect women? And who gets to decide when a woman’s safety concerns are “serious enough” to matter? In this episode, Tonya GJ Prince reflects …

    They think that we are stupid. …. I’m going to keep this brief because it is simple. Sometimes when people attempt to make simple things complex they are …

Nearly every fan of music has seen the Fugees Killing Me Softly Video. At the time, it was striking and ground-breaking. The song and the video. It was directed by Aswad …

 How We Villainize Black Women Who Disagree with Males C Delores Tucker updated from March 21 2022  They will never run out of nasty and unkind words for Black women …

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”- Zora Neale Hurston There comes a point when ‘share everything’ sounds a lot like ‘give …

Benefit is not just about who receives opportunities in a given policy moment but also about who accumulates advantage across time without interruption.   Names change on paper before anything …

updated from June 2025 This history is not symbolic. It is specific, embodied, and carried forward through language. For many Black American women, forced renaming has never been a side …

Years ago I wrote that sometimes we women in the West move like we have so many rights that we have “spare rights” or something. We do not. It is …

updated from April 7, 2023 Sometimes they try to make you feel like you’re “too emotional,” “too sensitive,” or “doing too much.” But the truth is: when something feels off, …

The first step in controlling a person is often convincing them they cannot trust what they know. Violence prevention begins long before violence. It begins with protecting people’s right to …