Tag: Black Women

I've been wrestling wit the fact that Black women are consistently willing to risk our lives for men who harm us in myriad ways.

The denigration and sexualization of Black women has been unapologetically tolerated since African people were brought here as slaves in 1619.

Black women have been raising alarms for years about being forced to undergo intrusive, degrading searches of their hair at airport security checkpoints.

Minimizing our mental health, masking depression, staying busy, overeating or not eating at all, and normalizing all of it is killing us slowly.

Black women comprise more than 70 percent of African-American churches and are the most religiously committed among Protestants, yet, today, eyebrows raise, churches split, pews empty and recommendation letters get ...