Let’s get this straight…again! Black Girls Rock! Is not racist. Black people are the group that is marginalized and in the minority. We can be biased and prejudiced, but we lack the power and privilege to be racist. Representation Matters. Black Girls Rock! counters the images of Black women fighting on reality tv, being abused […]
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My belief that is supported by facts: America is a country built on racism. The Founding Fathers owned Black human beings whom they considered property without any legal rights because they were not considered citizens of the United States. Structural racism is so ingrained in our identity that when we speak out against it, we
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January 1, 2020 – the beginning of a new decade. It is also special because it begins and ends with the same two digits – like 1919, many of us may not see 2121. This year will definitely go down in the history books but necessarily for good reasons. The year 2020 has been fraught
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All the experts and gurus have told you that it’s time to pivot. The consensus is that somehow your grace period has ended. The truth is that it is very hard to pivot when you’re overwhelmed, exhausted, confused or angry. Although I am clear that this is not the time for me personally to be
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Black history is American history. Black history is taught in many schools as an elective or only during the month of February and sometimes still not taught at all. Black voices have been silenced and our stories buried or diluted for centuries. We will no longer be silent! “The more you know your history, the
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Following World War I, Tulsa, Oklahoma was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community known as the Greenwood District. This thriving business district and surrounding residential area was referred to as “Black Wall Street.” On May 31, 1921, Dick Rowland, a black man, was imprisoned for allegedly assaulting a white woman. A mob assembles
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Black Lives Matter all day, every day! I am a Black woman. Unapologetically Black. I rarely describe myself as African American or a woman or color and never as a brown woman (actually I’m confused by the Black women who call themselves Brown, but that is neither here nor there). I’ve learned how to be
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