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.
Just Sayin’
Profiles and Posts
Gwen McKinney's guest Op-Ed on OWN traces the history of the role of Black women in the women's suffrage movement.
Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to represent California in the United States Senate, is yet another manifestation of the truth that Black women are the Democratic Party's beating heart.
Poetry Corner
Now you understand / Just why my head’s not bowed / I don’t shout or jump about / Or have to talk real loud.
And how you swore, if somebody beeped the bell,
And how my heart played hopscotch if the telephone rang;
And how you swore, if somebody beeped the bell,
And how my heart played hopscotch if the telephone rang;