Civil Rights

  updated from April 4 2025 Generation X was not ready for this story, but we needed it! Our Boomer parents were not ready either, but they most definitely needed …

updated from September 24, 2025 Too often, when a woman dares to speak up about her own safety needs, she is shamed. Other women tell her she’s “overreacting,” “paranoid,” or …

  updated from March 23 2025 There is a familiar pattern in history. Women organize. Women speak. Women document harm. Women build shelters, create opportunities, change laws, and fight for …

  updated from April 8 2025 Some lies don’t look like lies.They wear the clothing of “tradition,” “culture,” “love,” or “femininity.”But if you look closer, you’ll see the bruises they …

originally published in 2025 There is a dangerous lie being whispered and shouted in this world:That a woman is a feeling.That our existence—our lives, our flesh, our blood, our history—is …

updated from April 18, 2025 In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. -Shirley Chisholm …..(don’t ever let anyone tell you …

updated from March 27, 2025 It is an age-old, exhausting pattern: expecting Black women to absorb the impact, soothe, cushion, and hold space for men and male biology, even at …

 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 …

Why won’t they say our names? In an era when nearly every issue has a spokesperson, why do so many women and girls feel unheard when it comes to their …

There are wounds that don’t stop bleeding just because the headlines fade.There are names that deserve to be spoken with reverence—not only in tragedy, but in truth. We know Amiri …