Power

For a short season, my home state had a WNBA team, and I got to go and see a few games up close with my siblings. I was in my …

Truth does not become false because it becomes unpopular. And the truth is, as proud as we are of some of these women for how they climbed the ladder. The …

updated from December 13, 2025 FGM victims’ fury as academics compare practice to cosmetic surgery Any honest critique of global efforts to address female genital mutilation must begin here: Girls’ …

updated from February 15 2026   One of the hardest lessons many women learn is this: Love does not require you to ignore what your eyes, your body, and your …

Shame is one of the oldest tools of control. It does not simply tell you that you made a mistake. It whispers that you are the mistake. Healthy relationships leave …

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 …

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. …

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 …