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The personal and systemic become one again…thanks Donny!

May 23, 2017September 28, 2016 by Shay

I wish that I could say that growing up, I knew that I wanted to fight racial injustice, but that would be a lie. If someone had told me that by my mid-40s I would be gaining a reputation as a “race relations” expert, that would have been downright comical to me. My childhood dreams …

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Categories Current Events Tags 2016 Presidential Race, Donald Trump, systemic racism 1 Comment

For My Mentor and All the Black Women Who Hold Us Up

May 7, 2020September 25, 2016 by Shay

There are people who come into your lives whose presence changes the entire trajectory of your life; for me personally there have been three such people, two of whom I married and the other who was my first instructor when I went to college in my mid-20s. As I have recounted over the years, I …

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Categories Feminism/Womanism Tags black women, Cynthia Milsap

Why we share, or The value of our stories and the price of silence

November 13, 2017September 11, 2016 by Shay

These are strange times that we are living in. Technology has allowed us to start having conversations that previously were held behind closed doors…and often in the company of only our nearest and dearest friends and family. No longer do we have to wait until the end of the day to return home to vent …

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Categories Racial and Cultural
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