I didn’t believe in Cinderella. I didn’t believe in Sleeping Beauty. And I could not identify with Rapunzel. Not because they were white but because they were pitiful.
Tag: Women’s History
Lies They Sold Us, Part Two: Picture Perfect Friendship
We craft relationships with other women that help build communities, hold families together, and endure tragedy.
And Yet…She Persisted: Mary McLeod Bethune, a Portrait
Mary McLeod Bethune faced down illiteracy. She battled against sexism. She fought racism. She raised her son as a single woman. And she built a legacy for generations to benefit from.
harriet tubman, a fearfree living trailblazer
if the only thing harriet tubman had ever done was walk to freedom and then later return to rescue her family members, she would have earned her place in history as a woman of courage.
because i am, a poem
I want to write a poem that moves with the cadence and crescendo of an old Negro spiritual; I want to write a poem that reaches into the bowel of humanity in a vise like grip milking out compassion and tolerance; I want to write a poem that shares the test of walking through fire…
Mrs. Delores Bennett, Patron Saint of the North End
i was a young nonprofit executive completely full of myself. she came into my office rattled off a list of to do’s so fast it made my head spin. i thought i was smart. i thought i was caring. i thought i understood what working for the people meant…then i met Mrs. Delores Bennett. she…
fearfree living 