The women I want the world to start remembering forever are pictured here. Please click on their photos for more information about their lives and stories, as well as ongoing activism in their memories for this remainder of Black History Month. #SayHerName
Category: Children
Little Rock Nine, Four Little Girls, and One Confederate Flag: A Retrospective
One way to move this tragedy and the deceased in it past public ephemera and into history is to forever connect the loss of their lives to a national symbolic act against domestic terrorism: the legally-mandated abolition of our Confederate flag, and civil prosecution of anyone who waves it.
“We have to give our black girls “the Talk”- and it’s not about sex…”…my essay on the horrifying McKinney, Texas, injustice, on SheKnows.com…
Racial profiling does not discriminate by gender...it's time to tell our black girls the police may not be working for them.
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.
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
Erykah Badu Talks Home Birthing and other resources
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwGfxT7rxfQ International Center for Traditional Childbearing Black Women Birthing Justice The Birthing Project USA: Safe Birth Kits for African and Latin American Women Worldwide Have negression waiting in your inbox: Subscribe Today. Twitter | Pinterest | Kalisha.com
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