If I mention The Color Purple and you don't know what I'm talking about, I question everything about you. Like your very existence. Alice's Walker's seminal text, The Color Purple is like playing spades and the electric slide— if you show up at the Black family reunion, you better be familiar. I'm talking ability to drop random quotes in conversations familiar. For example: Sister-in-law: Girl, I'm moving to Hawaii Me: You and me us never part *insert hand motions*[...]
By now you've probably heard that 2016 is the year of the Black girl. But even if you haven’t heard, you’ve been seeing it everywhere. It’s possible a lot of people don’t recognize it because sometimes Black girl wins don’t look familiar to most folks. A prominent example of this is when a Black woman, in this case Melissa Harris-Perry, walks off her job. Leaving your source of employment, with or without securing another position is almost always considered a prima facie loss. But[...]