1. You must let the pain visit. 2. You must allow it teach you 3. You must not allow it overstay. (Three routes to healing) - Ijeoma...

Photo: Inquiring Minds - Girls and STEM -Here, children take part in a science class, Washington, March 1942 #CosbyWatch: Bill Cosby's...

“The fact that we are here and that [we] speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences...

“I have been in sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots, then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp...

As college students head back to school, the media and social media are abuzz with daily news about filmmaker Nate Parker and his college...

Photo Credit: Maybelline McCoy “we need a god who bleeds now a god whose wounds are not some small male vengeance some pitiful concession...

“And she looks clean” This is what was said to me by a male teacher who thought I was attractive. I was 13 years old, in special...

In that jail it was nothing to see a woman brought in all beat up. In some cases, the only charge was “resisting arrest.” A Puerto Rican...

Black Feminist Reflections from Goree Island, The Reproductive Potentials of the Middle Passage Waters, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave...

The war on poverty has been fought by Black women in the United States for centuries, beginning with their resistance to the wholesale...

1) JULY 29, 2016 2:00 pm - To Protect and Serve: Understanding Cop Culture and the Clash with The Idea That Black Lives Matter webinar...

As the school year comes to a close and our children and youth prepare to spend their summer at camp or neighborhood swimming pools, at...

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Rarely is gender and violence against women considered when the plight of people of African descent are addressed. The Black Women’s...

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In 2009, at the New Jersey Governor’s Conference for Women in Atlantic City, I sat under the sound of one of most beautiful voices I had...

Twelve members of Black Women's Blueprint traveled to Oklahoma City - ten of us by van - to show support for the survivors of former...

The morning after an all-white jury recommended ex-cop, and now-convicted rapist Daniel Holtzclaw to receive 263 years in prison,...

A chance to speak A chance to shout A chance to be recognized, considered, telling you what it's all about. Not your conclusions Not your...

I was only about 5 years old when N.W.A. ruled the airwaves. I vaguely remember hearing their records on the bus rides to and from school...