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Updated from January 28, 2024 Black History Month is not a highlight reel. It is a living inheritance. A remembering of courage carried quietly, brilliance cultivated against the odds, and …

updated from November 5, 2025 Do you see how not one male is explaining his right to boundaries, just women and girls? You see how rested they are? That is …

 updated from 2/2/ 2025   Without Black women, the miracles of  Black history would not be possible.      So much of who I am, I owe to the women …

Like every abused woman and child Black Americans reside in a county that pushes us to “move on“,  “get over it“, and “forgive and forget“. Heavy emphasis on the forget. …

Updated from June 3, 2025 Speaking of a harmed woman’s word is never good enough…….. We WILL NOT be forgetting this. We human beings are a flawed bunch and we …

Adults. Adults can either create safety or harm.  We play a hand in upholding abusers and harmers of children. A larger part than we want to admit.  Not just in …

We arrived here because too many people rush to shield their favorite men instead of listening to the harmed. We can stop. Right now. We arrived here because discomfort feels …

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns …

Domestic violence advocates have been here before. For decades, advocates fought a very specific lie.Not loudly at first.But relentlessly. The lie sounded like this: He’s a good father.He’s a provider.He’s …

“I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?” — Langston Hughes   Many of you are sensing something familiar as disturbing …