Just Sayin’

Read forward. Listen up. Black women are speaking. We and our allies have a lot to say about politics, cultures, the state of our families and the state of the world. We share commentaries, profiles, poetry, podcasts and essays. 

Profiles and Posts

Celebrating the Life of Lani Guinier
Celebrating the Life of Lani Guinier
Celebrating the Life of Lani Guinier
Scholar and race equity titan Lani Guinier, the first Black woman tenured at Harvard Law School, will be remembered as a visionary whose theories will be studied and practiced far into the future.
Salute to Black Women Veterans — Not Missing In Action
Salute to Black Women Veterans — Not Missing In Action
Salute to Black Women Veterans — Not Missing In Action
Black women veterans are not MIA. They just don’t get the props they deserve. We salute this Veterans Day with some light and love to Sheila D. Tyson and the unsung Black women veterans.
We Are Black Women
We Are Black Women
We Are Black Women
The term “WOC” negates racial identity in the service of racial unity and it obscures specific barriers facing Black women. It blends multiethnicities into a recipe of erasure.

Poetry Corner

Breonna Remembered
Breonna Remembered
Breonna Remembered
One year after Breonna Taylor's senseless murder, poet Bernadine "Dine" Watson pays tribute across space, time and sameness.
Juneteenth Reparations
Juneteenth Reparations
Juneteenth Reparations
Rosemari Mealy’s exquisite poem takes us on an enduring, emotional journey to the post-emancipation period now known as Juneteenth.
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
“She was a person of the folks,” said poet and literary critic Sterling Brown who sheds love and light in this poem simply titled Ma Rainey.
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