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Survivor Affirmations: I Love My Uniqueness

Survivor Affirmations: I Love My Uniqueness

I love myself for my uniqueness.I value myself because I am different. I am exactly as I am meant to be. Only I can make my own unique co [...]
They Loved the Style, Not the Black Woman: Esther Jones and the Betty Boop Lesson

They Loved the Style, Not the Black Woman: Esther Jones and the Betty Boop Lesson

Exploitation is a hand that smiles while taking. It praises your light, then sells your flame. It calls it “help,” but leaves you colder.   [...]
10 Lessons the African Drongo Bird Teaches Us About Manipulation

10 Lessons the African Drongo Bird Teaches Us About Manipulation

Most of us have the capacity to manipulate at times. We may exaggerate, avoid difficult conversations, or try to influence outcomes in [...]
Survivor Affirmations: Lessons From the Female Elephant on Survival

Survivor Affirmations: Lessons From the Female Elephant on Survival

There is a question women are asked to answer that we were never really equipped to answer. How do you know which men are good and which men are da [...]
Across the Water: We Were Never Surviving Alone

Across the Water: We Were Never Surviving Alone

There is a way of telling Black history that can accidentally leave Black Americans standing alone. We learn about the courage it took to survive s [...]
SurvivorAffirmations: You Do Not Have to Become a Tragedy Before We See You

SurvivorAffirmations: You Do Not Have to Become a Tragedy Before We See You

Sometimes a woman does not need another person telling her to be strong. She has been strong all morning. She got somebody dressed. Found the missin [...]
The Scar Is Not the Whole Story: What Miss World Uganda’s Extraordinary Gown Asked Us to See

The Scar Is Not the Whole Story: What Miss World Uganda’s Extraordinary Gown Asked Us to See

There are dresses designed to make us look. Then there are dresses designed to make us understand. When Miss World Uganda Muhoza Trivia Elle appeare [...]
The Day the Women Came Together: The Nigerian Women’s War of 1929

The Day the Women Came Together: The Nigerian Women’s War of 1929

It began with a question at a woman’s home. Not a battlefield. Not a government building. Not a grand speech delivered before thousands of peop [...]
Naomi Osaka: They Mocked Her When She Was Hurting. Now They Mock Her for Shining

Naomi Osaka: They Mocked Her When She Was Hurting. Now They Mock Her for Shining

I can't. Some of the loudest fashion critics of Naomi Osaka are at work right now dressed like they came to help somebody move. There is a particul [...]
I Don’t Remember a World Before Dolly Parton

I Don’t Remember a World Before Dolly Parton

I think some artists enter your life so early that you cannot remember becoming a person without them. Their voices get mixed up with childhood itself [...]
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