Centering white allies in our movements shifts them from being unapologetically pro-Black to becoming about what white people need to cope with their guilt. By Gloria Oladipo “Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth. Like it or not, we are all in this together.” This is what Terry Crews—our...
Tag: Toni Morrison
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Black Feminist Writings Gave Me Life and Love After Death’s Touch
Black feminist writings gave me the will to live, pushed me towards collective thinking, expanded my capacity to love, and so much more. By Breya M. Johnson TW/CW: This essay contains discussions of suicide Black people are all survivors of some type of violence. I have survived many unspeakable acts of cruelty in my own...
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“As fleet and bright as a lodestar”: Remembering Toni Morrison
Morrison’s words constitute a secular religion. Her novels and nonfiction are holy writ. Every book, every paragraph, and every sentence are love-songs for a lovelorn and weary people. Content Warning: mentions of death by suicide By Robert Randolph, Jr. 1. I often wonder if Kalief Browder read Toni Morrison. Did Nigel Shelby or Blake Brockington?...
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10 Books Black Folks Should Read Before Getting a DNA Ancestry Test
Learning more about Black history is highly necessary to understanding who we are and where we are from. DNA testing for ancestry and ethnicity is increasingly popular and a number of companies offer a careful breakdown of our lineage. Black buyers especially should prepare themselves for the truths that lie within the DNA results. This...
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Organizing for Liberation Ain’t Free When Capitalism Rules Everything Around Me
A constant struggle that continues to arise within Black organizations, the activist world, community spaces and social justice conversations is that of who gets paid for their work? and how we prioritize the need for payment for labor as we navigate a capitalist system. “The work” referenced here means that of survival, the fight for safety...
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A Woman of Color Author’s 12 Favorite Novels by Other Women of Color Writers
As an avid consumer of books and especially fiction, over the years I’ve developed a special shelf of particularly beautiful and inspiring works by women of color that help me not only walk around in another woman’s experiences, but also situate my own culturally and ethnically fluid self within a canon of women writers. Being...