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Dear White Men, Never lecture Black women on the n-word

This post is written in response to a Facebook post written by Frank Sommerville, a White television anchor, who complained that his Black…

2 min readFeb 21, 2021

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Dear White Men, Never lecture Black women on the n-word

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We Survive No Matter the Results of the Election 2020

Maya Angelou said, ‘You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything…

3 min readOct 22, 2020

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We Survive No Matter the Results of the Election 2020

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Professor of African American studies comes out as White

Written by Ominira Mars, guest author, and graduate student

3 min readOct 10, 2020

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Professor of African American studies comes out as White

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To the Doctors Collecting Uteruses: My Grandma Said, “Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone.”

When I was a little girl, my grandmother used to have this saying, “every goodbye ain’t gone.” She said it to wisely let us know that just…

2 min readSep 23, 2020

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To the Doctors Collecting Uteruses: My Grandma Said, “Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone.”

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Don’t Say, “Black Panther died” Say He Returned to the Ancestors Instead

Yesterday, we received the news that Chadwick Boseman, the actor who played Black Panther, passed away due to colon cancer. Since then…

3 min readAug 29, 2020

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Don’t Say, “Black Panther died” Say He Returned to the Ancestors Instead

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Dear Kamala Harris: Be Audacious Like Fannie Lou Hamer

Yesterday morning, I listened to Kamala Harris, the Vice Presidential Nominee, credit Joe Biden for having the audacity to select her, a…

4 min readAug 15, 2020

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Dear Kamala Harris: Be Audacious Like Fannie Lou Hamer

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“What I call the Black question is where you going, where you’re coming from?” Episode 8 Transcript

Aaminah Norris: Recently I sat for a conversation with my cousin Sharn who is my mom’s first cousin. He’s my Aunt Boo’s youngest son. Aunt…

11 min readAug 13, 2020

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“What I call the Black question is where you going, where you’re coming from?” Episode 8 Transcript

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Study for the People ‘Little Sister’:: Six Valuable Lessons from Kwame Toure (AKA Stokely…

I am a Black woman activist educator whose experience as a child of Civil Rights activists influences my work and my commitment to…

3 min readAug 4, 2020

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Study for the People ‘Little Sister’:: Six Valuable Lessons from Kwame Toure (AKA Stokely…

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No More “Distance Learning”: Create Collective Learning Instead

To survive the threat to our health and safety caused by reopening schools during a global pandemic, let’s rely on Black women educators…

3 min readJul 25, 2020

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No More “Distance Learning”: Create Collective Learning Instead

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Becoming An Antiracist: Six Steps You Can Take Toward Making Black Lives Matter

Black Americans experience, “a terror relayed not by the dogs, hoses, and bombs in the new South of the sixties, but by the near…

4 min readJul 9, 2020

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Dr. Aaminah Norris

Dr. Aaminah Norris

Dr. Aaminah Norris, Founder, and CEO of UhHidden Voices a Black woman-owned educational consultancy based in San Francisco, California.

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