Black women will not become extinct
Sonja Williams, Bellwood, IL As a black woman I continue to see the not so subtle messaging in media and advertising often portraying black women...
Anti-Semitism and anti-white exist
Sally Ann Siegel New York, NY I experience anti-white and anti-Semitism occasionally from black women.
Why Not Put My Needs First?
Faith Dow, Washington, DC. Black women are the benchmark and template for every viable social reform from the past 50 years that others use to...
Black. Good hair? Indian in your family?
Nicole, New Orleans, LA. Black women are so obsessed with their hair that it can totally consume their life… “I can’t get in the pool...
Not a tool against Black Women.
Betty Rosenda Green, Chino Hills, CA. With the recent controversies of Zoe Saldana playing Nina Simone in blackface and Zendaya Coleman having been cast originally...
I’m not the angry black women.
Taylor Berry, Charlotte, NC There’s not much to say. I’m not about to write a novel on a topic that isn’t rocket science. All I...
Being called sassy is not complementary.
Starr, Albuquerque, NM. Black women are often characterized as sassy which I take as an insult. The root of sassy is sass or to balk,...
Threatened because was the white girl.
Laura C, San Ramon, CA During high school at ROP I was attacked and threatened as was my a boy friends for being “the white...
The sky is not the limit
Barnstorming Elizabeth “Bessie” Colman was the first African American to get an international pilots license at a time when women were not supposed to -...
My Black is Best on Me
Shani Ketema, Newark, NJ. Mini Buns. Boxer Braids. Tans. Injections. Street style. TRANSLATION Bantu Knots, Cornrows, Black skin, thickness and what I’ve been wearing for...
Black Is Just An Insecure Label
R.E.A.L. Talk, High Tech Middle Media Arts, 7th Grade Trailblazer To me race is just a made up way to put people in groups, based...
Not all black women are “mad”
Zadirah Boyd, Philadelphia, PA. Black women has the characteristic of being mad, mean, or ghetto. Not all black women are angry or ghetto. There are...
Intelligent and black, hated for that.
Consuelo, Stone Mountain, GA. This is because the two of the men in my life have dismissed me because I do not fit the ideals...
Highly educated black woman. …so what
Levaughn, Grand Blanc, MI. I’m a master social worker and received my accelerated advanced degree from a top ten university…MSU… I am an outpatient therapist...
My hair is not a weave!
Dana, USA. People always assume that if a black women has long hair, it’s not real.
Black woman, Mink coat, Food Stamps
James Batavia, IL As a young adult, living on my own and working two jobs to support myself, I was waiting in line at the...
