Posts Tagged ‘calaya reid’
White privilege and the obscene attack on the Black Lives Matter movement
Few non-blacks can imagine the pain and worry that injects into the daily lives of black fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers a constant fear of death.
Read MoreTrauma in the house: A dark girl’s problem with the ‘Brothers’ segment of ‘Light Girls’ on OWN
A few months ago, I was peering out of my bedroom window as I chatted on the phone with writer Shelia Moses. I was being interviewed for her book Dark Girls (2014), a beautiful photo/essay collection of dark girls’ color-conscious stories based on Bill Duke’s 2013 OWN feature of the same name. A friend had…
Read MoreSisters with naturals at ONE Music Fest 2014: The queendom grows
There was a time when not one month could go by without me slapping a full kit of white, creamy toxic hair relaxer on my innocent, brown and stressed out scalp. It was tiring, methodical work that made me a scientist, mathematician, doctor and hairdresser before the kitchen sink. While the boxes insisted I wait six…
Read MoreI don’t care who killed Michael Brown: And neither should you
Following a late night Facetime debate with my grandmother last night, I found myself on YouTube seeking snippets of artist Kanye West’s politically charged post-Hurricane Katrina 2005 pronouncement that sitting president “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” During a celebrity-led telethon set to raise funds for Americans displaced during the cataclysmic wash that might…
Read MoreCatching Fire: Spelman celebrates Women’s History Month with poetry and spoken word
Spelman College heats things up this Women’s History Month with “Catching Fire: An Evening of Epic Live Performance,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4aaYaI_KTc) a celebration of women of color. Organized by the English Department and co-sponsored by the Women’s Research and Resource Center, the Honor’s Program, Office of Inclusion and corporate sponsor and diversity leader Randstad, the evening of…
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