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From Jane Crow to Intersectionality At YWCA, our mission is inspired by the perspectives of Black feminists who have consistently transformed the fights for gender equity and racial justice. During Black Herstory Month, we’re celebrating Black feminism and centering the work of powerful Black sheroes past and present doing the critical work to eliminate racismContinue reading “The Unsung Legacy of Black Feminism”

 An American Project Through May 30, 2022 Dawoud Bey, A Girl with a Knife Nosepin, Brooklyn, NY, 1990, inkjet print (printed 2019), collection of the artist, courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago; and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. © Dawoud Bey “This exhibition is magnificent.”—Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle Photographer Dawoud Bey portrays communities and historiesContinue reading “Dawoud Bey”

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Sisters view : Respect There was once a time when a woman wanted to be treated like a woman and not like a broad, bitch, or slut. Thenew generation of woman though doesn’t care about respect or status they are more worried about appealing to the opposite sex and how they respond to them. WomenContinue reading “Sister’s View”

Something About Purpose Until we share our deepest fears or strongest desires we are mere shells of ourselves. Maybe the day will comewhen we talk of our innermost wants but today is not that day. At this particular juncture the theme is purpose. Howmany times have we sat thinking vision clear, target acquired; then someoneContinue reading “Brother’s View”

Stop looking for the come upAndBecome the other half of the man you want… I have gotten a lot of grief from my male readers about male bashing; and when I ask my friends they tell methey honestly cannot know me because if they did they would know I usually side with the males. IContinue reading “Flash Back 2013”

An Artistic Appeal…in Poetry   I remember the moment I wanted to become a writer. I was fifteen years old, and I  had just been blown away by “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker”, by Prince. Although I  had been a connoisseur of music at an early age (thanks primarily to my father), I had  never beenContinue reading “Commentary”