Racial profiling does not discriminate by gender...it's time to tell our black girls the police may not be working for them.
Author: Kalisha Buckhanon for negression
“Spirit of Writing” is now a class at The Eckleburg Workshops.
To work with Kalisha on re-establishing your writing practice and resurrecting your creative spirit, register for the first session of Kalisha’s course “Spirit of Writing,” at The Eckleburg Workshops.
My story “There Were Six” appears in Per Contra: An International Journal of The Arts, Literature, and Ideas
The number of black women and girls who go missing without a manhunt or trace continues. I am grateful to share my fictionalization of the predicament of deprioritized black women and girls as the story "There Were Six" in Per Contra: An International Journal of The Arts, Literature and Ideas. I don't presume to do justice to the realistic situation in a story, but please find some helpful links and resources included in this post.
Birthing a Slave: Reproduction and Inhumanity during America’s Slavery Era
To understand how the joyous occasion of motherhood was a form of suffering for black female slave, please read this excellent post on "the book Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South, by Marie Jenkins Schwartz. The book tells the history of a somewhat esoteric subject: the need of slaveholders, and the … Continue reading Birthing a Slave: Reproduction and Inhumanity during America’s Slavery Era
What Happened to “Free Lunch” in the Summer?
Now that school is out, many children who are either neglected or part of low-budget households will forage for junk food and miss meals outside of a regular school lunch...No Kid Hungry Summer Action Day is June 22!
Happy Mother’s Day!… My essay and tribute to my mom #Juwana and teen moms on SheKnows.com.
I wrote about the many advantages I had as a child of a teen mom over at SheKnows.com. Happy Mother's Day and enjoy! #Juwana #ILoveMyMom
Read a chapter from my upcoming novel SOLEMN in Deep South Magazine…
I owe deep thanks to Deep South Magazine's editor Erin Bass for taking on an entire chapter of my new novel SOLEMN to publish in her Southern Voice section.
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