Article Category: Just Saying

  • The Unmasking of Breonna Taylor

    Incoming Rep. Cori Bush was confused when greeted as 'Breonna.' Stunned, she soon realized that wearing Breonna Taylor's name is more than a political statement.

    December 1, 2020
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    10 minute read

  • Election – Down Ballot Downlow

    Voters nationwide turned out in numbers unseen in decades and swept Black women into local and national halls of power.

    November 6, 2020
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    3 minute read

  • Reimagining the Power of Suffrage

    Gwen McKinney's guest Op-Ed on OWN traces the history of the role of Black women in the women's suffrage movement.

    October 12, 2020
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    1 minute read

  • We Are Black Women

    The term “WOC” negates racial identity in the service of racial unity and it obscures specific barriers facing Black women. It blends multiethnicities into a recipe of erasure.

    October 4, 2020
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    5 minute read

  • Backbone – You Say? Why Not the Heart?

    Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to represent California in the United States Senate, is yet another manifestation of the truth that Black women are the Democratic Party's beating heart.

    August 12, 2020
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    2 minute read

  • Open Letter From Black Women

    Co-sign a petition with thousands of Black women who are denouncing attacks against Black women VP candidates.

    August 7, 2020
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    2 minute read

  • The Politics of Ambition

    Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority President Glenda Glover issues a call to arms to her 300,000+ members and to all Black women outraged by attacks intended to erase us.

    August 4, 2020
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    4 minute read

  • Monuments to Harriet

    A monument to the Great Harriet Tubman on the National Mall – you say? First, let’s support and honor the existing memorials for one of America’s greatest patriots.

    August 2, 2020
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    2 minute read

  • Black Women: The Historic Electability Myth

    Higher Heights CEO Glynda Carr reflects on the political power of Black women who deliver as voters but must swim through a deep sea of gender and racial bias to electability.

    July 17, 2020
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    1 minute read