Herstory/History

  If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others. -Michelle Obama (Why Black women must speak for ourselves, gatekeep our image, …

Connecting with political allies is harder than people admit—especially when your foundation is not hate, not outrage for sport, but a clear, grounded sense of humanity. Because you start to …

It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen-year-old Sakia Gunn stood at a Newark bus corner, laughing with her friends. She was coming back from …

  People tend to move on and forget the people we lost during the seasons when deception and manipulation reigned…… So many, too many Survivors have been hurt in these …

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 …

Calling Things by Their Proper Name: Honoring Dr. Angella Dorothea Ferguson “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” — Confucius Sometimes the most powerful change …

   Make your own choices. Live your own life. But when women see patterns through other women’s lives, our eyesight becomes so much clearer. THAT is why our voices, our …

You have no idea how much that 1% and 2% who owned slaves matters to some people. My goodness. Anyway. People are still upset about that blog post. And writing …

Listen to her side of this tragic story. She begins with the pastoral picture: open spaces, animals, flowers, fields. It sounds like memory softened by sunlight. Then you notice who …