I am the granddaughter of Eula and RP Sirls, sharecroppers in Texas and Alabama in the 1930s, and the great-granddaughter of Rosa (formerly enslaved) and George Thrikill; and the granddaughter of Elizabeth Jean Pratt and Daniel Pratt of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
I am the sister of Awadagin Pratt, one of the “one of the great and distinctive American pianists and conductors of our time.”
I am the mother of Emmanuel Pratt-Clarke (@emmanuelaopc), an amazing talented African-Diaspora artist and painter based in the United States and the Bahamas whose art is highlighted on this website, and Raebekkah Pratt-Clarke, a powerful, determined Blackwildgirl “dominating the field” in sports management.
Introduction Today, I turn 58 years old. The last several years/decades seem to have flown by. I’m not young, not old, perhaps in the middle, assuming I am gifted a few more decades, but no day is guaranteed. I’d like to live to 100 and be robust at 100. I’ve
I’ve been struggling. Struggling to stand against the weight of the anti-; the anti-this; and anti-that; and the anti-all things in America that I thought were stable, good, wonderful, beautiful, different. I am a firm believer in the importance of positive energy and I believe in hope. I am still
Coretta Scott King was a Blackwildgirl: A woman with incredible persistence, purpose, passion, determination, conviction, with a fierce and unwavering commitment to justice and love. Just over a year after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, Coretta Scott King wrote a book about his life and her life in June 1969.
