(Photo courtesy of Lyndsey Culver) Black Girl Grief is a series I have being pondering for awhile. It is through my own grief that I have found answers to some…
By: Salaam Green Octavia Spencer an Alabama Black Woman I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress.…
Alabama Black Women: Recy Taylor, Activist My #MeToo Poem about Black #MeToo in front of a receptive predominantly white majority audience in Birmingham, Al. after watching major white feminism on…
All Voices are Worth Being Heard...Including Ours! Out the gate I admit I am exhausted and tired and hungry for more however what that more may be is the journey…
Don't tell me how powerful I am-I already know I am POWER! Could it be that you don't need more power (btw) that ish...isn't grace; perhaps its time to start…
---I walked out of the corner conference room feeling cornered but not defeated. When I was young all I wanted to be was a writer. In my late thirties I…
Dear Black Woman, The World will say you are the problem... a problem. Black Woman you are Storm. Becoming more deliciously dangerous day after day after day. Speak with bass-the…
~In the womb of my black mother my body was on high-alert, fighting to be beautifully formed and shaped without apology. One of my earliest memory is of being told that I was…
The king of definitions of petty according to Mr. Webster ugh, ugh, a man telling us about words again is- of little importance; trival or secondary or lesser importance. Keep reading…
In 2017, I made some really insignificant mistakes that surely I and others will eventually forget. There were also some huge mistakes that I am doing my best to learn from and rectify. I opened my…
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