Category: Music
Women Have Been Singing About Their Freedom for Generations. They Had Good Reason.
Women have never needed permission to recognize ourselves as women. Ou [...]
When Someone Tries to Humiliate You and Take Your Name: Two Abuse Tactics Survivors Should Know (audio ep)
Abuse does not always begin with a bruise. Sometimes it begins with hu [...]
How Vanessa Williams Overcame Bias and Industry Backlash to Reinvent Herself—and Win Anyway
This is how you do it!
It was 1984. Vanessa Williams was su [...]
Valaida Snow: The Black American Jazz Star Caught in Nazi-Occupied Europe
There are some women history remembers only halfway.It r [...]
🎶 Playlist: Songs That Speak the Truth — Domestic Violence & Survival
Sometimes music is the only thing brave enough to say what we’ve been [...]
🎤💰 Money, Respect & the Woman’s Mic: Black Women’s Songs About Money, Power, and Respect
updated from April 2025
"We're supposed to pretend that if we are "go [...]
Gratitude to Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
updated from February 1, 2025
Music is healing.
Music is [...]
Stay Woke: When a Warning is Turned to a Punchline
Watching language warning about life or death flatten into [...]
Misogyny Is Not a Virtue: When Harmful Attitudes Are Framed as “Values”
"Equality and kindness" do not require or justify
the abolition of w [...]
Black History Month Means Honoring the Humanity of the Women Who Loved Us Here (Musical Playlist Included)
updated from 2/2/ 2025 Without Black women, the miracl [...]