Within days, Ferguson, and along with it Black-American hearts and minds everywhere, seemed to implode. I know mine did.
Author: Alexandra Moffett-Bateau
Equal Pay Day for (Some) African-American Women
What is Equal Pay Day for African-American Women, you may ask? It’s the estimated date that the average Black woman would have to work until to earn the same annual income that men (inclusive of all races) earned in 2013.
Beyond the Politics of Voting
We do a severe injustice to ourselves, and especially young people, when we insist that to be political, we must be limited to engaging with politicians in someway.
Chronic Pain, and the Denial of Care for Black Women
While lupus is a notoriously difficult diagnosis, there is quite a bit of evidence that women are generally taken less seriously, and even treated with suspicion, when they show up in the emergency room with pain as a primary symptom.
It’s Time to Rethink Black History Month
If my friends and I were lucky, sometimes we heard about George Washington Carver, who invented peanut butter, or the Tuskegee Airmen. But one thing was constant: The people we heard about were almost always male.