Rest in Peace, Ntozake Shange
This week, we say goodbye to Ntozake Shange, award-winning poet, playwright, performer, novelist, and educator. She gave us For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, which “became an electrifying Broadway hit and provoked heated...
Vote! Our Lives Depend On It.
I had the pleasure of attending a meeting of the NAACP last weekend. The self-described, “oldest, biggest and baddest” civil rights organization in the U.S., continues to focus its members on voting in the 2018 Midterms. At the NAACP Annual Convention in...
Black Women Are Complete: An Interview with Tishaura Jones, Treasurer of St. Louis
Our BlackHer Shero of the Week is Tishaura Jones, Treasurer of St. Louis. Her political career began in 2002 when she was appointed Democratic Committeewoman of the 8th Ward in the City of St. Louis, and she recently served two terms in the Missouri House of...
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