blueprintnyNov 2, 20166 minDear Black Girl....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...
blueprintnySep 8, 20162 min10 Things To Know This WeekPhoto: Inquiring Minds - Girls and STEM -Here, children take part in a science class, Washington, March 1942 #CosbyWatch: Bill Cosby's...
blueprintnyAug 23, 20165 minWhen the Silence Shatters: Post-Black Women's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Reflections f“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...
blueprintnyAug 18, 20164 minWith Harp and Sword: Trauma, Survivorship, and Reproductive Health“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...
blueprintnyAug 18, 20164 minNot Having It: Nate Parker and the False Choice for Black WomenAs college students head back to school, the media and social media are abuzz with daily news about filmmaker Nate Parker and his college...
blueprintnyAug 12, 20166 minPost-Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The Sacred-Political Lives of Black Women Survivors of RapPhoto Credit: Maybelline McCoy “we need a god who bleeds now a god whose wounds are not some small male vengeance some pitiful concession...
blueprintnyAug 10, 20163 minSexual Abuse and Power: Disabled Black Girls' Positions In the World“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...
blueprintnyAug 3, 20165 minBlack Women, Don’t Forget Your NamesIn 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...
blueprintnyJul 25, 201610 min‘We are Pregnant With Freedom’Black Feminist Reflections from Goree Island, The Reproductive Potentials of the Middle Passage Waters, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave...
blueprintnyJul 24, 20166 minThe Story of Black Women and the Economy in the U.S.The war on poverty has been fought by Black women in the United States for centuries, beginning with their resistance to the wholesale...
blueprintnyJul 23, 20161 min10 things to know this week1) JULY 29, 2016 2:00 pm - To Protect and Serve: Understanding Cop Culture and the Clash with The Idea That Black Lives Matter webinar...
blueprintnyJun 28, 20166 minRecanting Rape: Incidents in The Lives of Modern Black GirlsAs the school year comes to a close and our children and youth prepare to spend their summer at camp or neighborhood swimming pools, at...
blueprintnyMay 2, 20161 minA Reckoning: What Black Men Said About Black Women#politics #conflict #TruthCommission
blueprintnyMay 2, 20164 minBlack Women Lead a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on U.S. RapesRarely is gender and violence against women considered when the plight of people of African descent are addressed. The Black Women’s...
blueprintnyMay 1, 20161 minA Reckoning Is Still Needed: What White Feminists Are Saying About Race#Feminism #WhiteFeminist
blueprintnyJan 26, 20164 minA Rainbow In Her Cloud: A Lesson In Sisterhood On A Ride to Oklahoma CityIn 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...
blueprintnyJan 26, 20165 minReflections on the Black Women's Blueprint Justice Ride to Oklahoma CityTwelve members of Black Women's Blueprint traveled to Oklahoma City - ten of us by van - to show support for the survivors of former...
blueprintnyJan 15, 201611 minA Warrior Among Us: How One Black Woman's Fight for Justice Is Influencing the NationThe morning after an all-white jury recommended ex-cop, and now-convicted rapist Daniel Holtzclaw to receive 263 years in prison,...
blueprintnyJan 11, 20161 minWhat Does Justice Look Like to Black Women?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...
blueprintnyNov 30, 20154 minI Am Dee Barnes: The Importance Of Sisterhood And Holding Famous Black Men AccountableI 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...