A Voice With Radical Honesty
Today, International Women’s Day, the jazz great Nina Simone is on my mind. The fearless Simone was the consummate musical storyteller,...
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Aug 4, 2022
BIG government
The Kansas vote implies that people in 40 to of 50 states support abortion rights. Yet we have laws allowing government officials to...
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Feb 23, 2022
Hail Queen Rapinoe
For the past 21 years the U.S. women’s soccer team has won four Olympic gold medals and four World Cups. The men’s team has won none. Men...
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Aug 11, 2021
No Excuses
He said: “In my mind I’ve never crossed the line with anyone, but I didn’t realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn. There...
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Jul 7, 2021
A Lighter Burden
I watched the racism, the sexism, and the hypocrisy around Nikole Hannah-Jones and her tenure battle at UNC. The halls of power have a...
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May 25, 2021
One LONG Year
It has been one year since George Floyd was murdered. According to Statista “the ‘trend of fatal police shootings’ in the United States...
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Apr 22, 2021
SSSSSSSHHHHHHH
In support of LGBTQ youth. The Day of Silence is a student-led demonstration where LGBTQ students and allies around the country—and the...
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Mar 26, 2021
They Got It Wrong
Recently a great Creative Director from in our local ad community died. He was just 60 and died not of COVID but of a different, terrible...
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Mar 24, 2021
Enough!
This is what women earn compared to every white man’s dollar. This is how many years it will take to close the gender pay gap by race....
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Mar 19, 2021
Empathy in Action with Community Partnerships
A few weeks ago, I invited my community partners to have a chat. Given the horrific events in Atlanta recently, this conversation could...
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Mar 8, 2021
Six Decades of Feminism
It will never be enough to satisfy my yearnings. The 1950s were the fantasy decade, a time I have no memories of. I was but a babe....
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Feb 28, 2021
Strong Black Women
I ran across Ashley Richardson-George’s video on Girlsday. It’s from the Black Human Film series. Her voice is eloquent and strong. Her...
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Feb 8, 2021
Gratitude
Today the GROW website officially launches with offerings designed to break with the traditions of the past and collaboratively...
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Feb 1, 2021
Why Just February?
As I was considering what to write on the first day of Black History Month, I was again stuck by the irony of celebrating Black...
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Jan 20, 2021
"Do not tell me things can’t change.”
Today with the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President Kamala Harris, they did. Now, as inaugural poet Amanda...
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Jan 18, 2021
Our Mutual Destiny
“We’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end,” said Dr. Martin Luther King, the day before he was assassinated. That “we”...
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Dec 31, 2020
Black Queens Rising
The queen is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. Her prominence came with the rise of female monarchs in the 15th century and...
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Nov 26, 2020
A Day of Thanksgiving and Praise
On October 3, 1863, in the midst of the civil war, a time of great challenge amongst a divided nation, President Abraham Lincoln issued a...
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Nov 6, 2020
The Ladder is the Problem
When it comes to careers, why are we always talking about the ladder and how to climb it? The short answer is, the ladder reflects a...
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Sep 30, 2020
I Dissent
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18th I felt as if the ground upon which I walk had opened up and swallowed me. With her loss,...
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