Life Behind the Veil just wrapped up a year-long workshop series with Lincoln College. The series, "They Told You To Go To College, Now What?" was designed to decrease risk factors/increase protective factors that impact retention with a focus on students of color, women and...
Rewind “You bet not come home without a pack of cigarettes.” I was about 14 when my aunt uttered those words as I left the family compound on the Southside of Chicago. Admittedly, I didn’t give much thought to what she said at that moment. It later...
This week’s episode of Being Mary Jane circled back to a topic the title character wanted to explore in the first episode—ugly Black women. More specifically Mary Jane wanted to address a 2011 Psychology Today article that attempted to show that Black women were...
Track 1 of the series Feelin’ Myself: Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj on Sexuality, Agency, [M]othering, Identity and Millennial Feminism Feminist- The person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. ~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Black feminist thought takes many forms including writing, music, poetry, and...
"In honor of Women's History Month and the UN Declaration of 2015 as the start of the International Decade for People of African Descent, please join AAPF, The Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The National Organization for Women, Institute for Women's Policy Research, Black Women's Blueprint, PACE and...