by Cherie S. White | Mar 6, 2022
WRITTEN AND CONTRIBUTED BY TRACY SCOTT OF BLACK WOMEN’S PAC TEXAS What You Need to Know: Have you ever considered a career in political campaigning or legislative staff? Nationally, at all levels of government, there is a shortage of Black staff. As adults, we...
by Cherie S. White | Mar 6, 2022
What You Need to Know: March 7 marks the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” commemorating the deadly 1965 march. On that Sunday, over 500 civil rights marchers began their trek in Selma, Alabama, demanding voting rights for Black people. Upon reaching the Edmund...
by Cherie S. White | Mar 6, 2022
My mom’s kinda awesome. Headquartered at a monstrous U-shaped, faux-wood “poly-ury-ply-a-thane” desk-and-drawers nicknamed “Command Central” in the sunless basement of our house in suburban Virginia, Mom spent much of 25 years of her life...
by Cherie S. White | Mar 3, 2022
What You Need to Know: In 2008, during a routine trip to the OB/GYN, Erica Taylor. Davis, a then 30-something black woman, was fitted for a popular birth control device to regulate her unpredictable monthly periods. As the doctor inserted the device, she screamed out...
by Cherie S. White | Mar 3, 2022
WRITTEN & CONTRIBUTED BY COY MALONE What You Need to Know: Bounty hunters executing arrest warrants for 31-year-old Walter Hutchins, who is Black, on February 23 in Houston, TX, used two vehicles to block in at a parking lot. Moments after bounty hunters ran up to...
by Cherie S. White | Mar 3, 2022
WRITTEN & CONTRIBUTED BY KHAMERON RILEY What You Need to Know: People of color and foreign citizens are experiencing racist attacks preventing them from leaving Ukraine and seeking asylum. Nigerian student Jessica spoke to BBC via Twitter about her...
