Advocating for the World’s Untouchables”: Lessons Learned from India
Read full article with citations and links at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/advocating-worlds-untouchables-lessons-learned-from-india-menah-pratt-xrcwe/ Excerpts below: I have returned from visiting India for a week. As […]
“We are not guys, gents, or fellas!”: Squashing and Smashing the Dominance of Male-Centered Language
The first time it happened, I’m sure I was a little girl. I do remember being slightly horrified and embarrassed. As children, […]
“Hell, No!”: The Color Purple’s Advice to Black Women and Girls
I have purple African violets in my house. They are delicate but powerful and resilient plants. I love when the seem to […]
Misogynoir: Carrying the weight and hate of black womanness
Misogynoir: Carrying the weight and hate of black womanness. Misogynoir: “the particular f***ery Black women face” Dr. Moya Bailey https://web.archive.org/ web/20141115094029/ http://www.thevisibilityproject.com […]
We are not ok. We are Black Women in America.
I am reminded of this book by Antija Allen and Justin Stewart. We’re Not OK: Black Faculty Experiences and Higher Education Strategies […]
“I am not a symbol, I am an activist” Coretta Scott King
Just over a year after Martin Luther King, Jr., assassination, Coretta Scott King wrote a book about his life and her life […]
Dr. Claudine Gay: Let Us Not Allow Her To Be Erased
Today, President Claudine Gay resigned. This story is not on the home page of Harvard University. https://www.harvard.edu/ It is almost as if […]
I AM A #SURVIVOR: Finding the Courage to Speak and Act against Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
“Domestic and intimate partner violence always leaves its mark. Those of us, including me, who are lucky still have our lives. For […]
What is Your Renaissance?: Lessons from Beyoncé
The image for this post is drawn from the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art exhibit in Atlanta that just ended. The […]
Lessons Learned: Love, Loss, and Love Again
I just finishing watching “Love Again,” a movie that came out in 2023 with Celine Dion and Priyanka Chopra, on a flight […]
It’s Time for Women Warriors in the World: Lessons from Africa about Life and Leadership
Ethiopia. The only country on the continent that was not colonized A place of fields, Plains of grains, Expansive yellows blending […]
A Summer of #BlackGirlMagic
I played professional tennis after I graduated from high school. My dad was my coach. I had tears running down my face […]