Who is Anna Julia Cooper? Click here to learn more. Awesome FIRST wave Black Feminist. On Monday, I went to visit the Score Small business mentoring office to learn about the benefits and limits of a 501 (c) (3 versus an LLC or a conventional corp. #planning. #wingsup. I was REALLY surprised to learn that [...]
Archive for March, 2012
Reconciling the Non-Profit “Post Industrial” Complex with Black Girls in Mind
Friday, March 30th, 2012Listen to Your Intuiton
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012Image via Dr. Ergo Yesterday, Goldy and I were walking down New Hampshire. It was warm enough that Black folks were on their porches, and young folks of all races were walking their dogs. But on this particular stretch of street there wasn’t a lot of foot traffic. We walked pass an older Black man, [...]
Watching “The Best Man”: Old Movie, New Feminist Lens
Sunday, March 18th, 2012Last night I watched The Best Man. What is significant about it is that watching the film with an eye towards representations of Black women, I knew that there were going to be major distinctions and differences that I would see now that I didn’t see before. The first difference is in the opening when [...]
On the {Sexual} Politics of Viola Davis’s Natural Hair at the Oscars
Friday, March 16th, 2012It wasn’t until my homie Gisele, a Black woman and working actress pointed out to me that Viola Davis graduated from Julliard in the late 80′s, that my growing obsession with Davis began to make sense. In Davis, I saw myself. I saw the struggles of so many Black women who try to remain whole [...]
