Category: HERstory/History

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7 Reasons Survivors May Want to Read Taraji P. Henson’s Around the Way Girl

7 Reasons Survivors May Want to Read Taraji P. Henson’s Around the Way Girl

Sometimes the books that stay with Survivors aren't the ones written specifically about surviving. Sometimes they are simply somebody telling the t [...]
Angie Stone, Roberta Flack & Gwen McCrae: The Power of Their Musical Legacy

Angie Stone, Roberta Flack & Gwen McCrae: The Power of Their Musical Legacy

Angie Stone’s Music Pulled Us Through—And Now, She’s Gone.   Angie Stone has passed, and somehow, it still doesn’t feel real. During one of my [...]
7 Survival Lessons From Eve: Your Life Is Allowed to Have More Than One Act

7 Survival Lessons From Eve: Your Life Is Allowed to Have More Than One Act

Some chapters prove you can survive. Others remind you that survival was never supposed to be the whole story. I love Eve's music. Let me get th [...]
Vanessa Williams Refused to Become the Worst Thing People Said About Her

Vanessa Williams Refused to Become the Worst Thing People Said About Her

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way. -Nikki Giovanni It was 1984, and Vanessa [...]
Some People Don’t Wait for Affirmation. They Give It to Themselves.

Some People Don’t Wait for Affirmation. They Give It to Themselves.

They did not wait for the world to settle the question of their worth. They kept something sacred for themselves: the authority to know who they were. [...]
There Are No Children Here: When Survival Makes a Child Grow Up Too Soon

There Are No Children Here: When Survival Makes a Child Grow Up Too Soon

In 1993, Oprah Winfrey starred in a television movie called There Are No Children Here. She played LaJoe Rivers, a Black mother raising her children i [...]
You Remember the Beat. But Do You Remember What Chubb Rock Was Saying?

You Remember the Beat. But Do You Remember What Chubb Rock Was Saying?

I have been thinking about Chubb Rock’s “Treat ’Em Right”. Maybe it is because I keep hearing people talk about hip-hop as though an entire generat [...]
Bob Mackie Set Beauty Free: Remembering a Designer Who Knew How to……

Bob Mackie Set Beauty Free: Remembering a Designer Who Knew How to……

Before Bob Mackie dressed Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Cher, Dolly Parton and some of the most famous women in entertainment, Black women were already d-r [...]
Why Does He Get Angry When You’re Happy? When Your Joy Becomes a Problem in a Controlling Relationship

Why Does He Get Angry When You’re Happy? When Your Joy Becomes a Problem in a Controlling Relationship

Inspired by....... Why women’s laughter has long been treated as a threat | Psyche Ideas  Posted by Amy Diehl, Ph.D on X.com   Th [...]
Florida A&M Marching 100: They Gave Dolly Parton Her Flowers Like Black HBCU Bands Do

Florida A&M Marching 100: They Gave Dolly Parton Her Flowers Like Black HBCU Bands Do

A great Black marching band performance is not casual praise. It is labor as praise. Somebody had to arrange “9 to 5” for that instrumentation. Music [...]
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