Katura Hudson, what do you imagine for Black girls? I don’t remember the class or even the name of the book we were reading. But I do remember my professor’s comment. We were talking about a character’s need for freedom. “Free from what?” I asked. The professor called me out. Asked why the character needed… Read More Feeling Free: Black Women, Black Girls

Shannon Gibney, what are your imaginings for Black girls? I want a library, a classroom, a home where a Black women or girl — in all the complexity and difference that that identity entails — can see some facet of her experience on the bookshelf. Maybe it is just a picture of her hair on… Read More Imagining: Black Women, Black Girls

Paula Chase, what do you imagine for Black girls? In my Time… In my time, I’ve had a male supervisor get inches from my face and tell me that I will obey him. I’ve had men lean on my problem-solving abilities, then turn around and get nasty when those same abilities dent their fragile egos.… Read More Imagining: Black Women, Black Girls

Tanita Davis, what do you imagine for Black girls? Imagining “Average” “Diahann Carroll,” my mother murmured, her voice giving the name capital letters and italics, “Diahann Carroll was the first one who we really saw.” I heard a litany of other names – Juanita Moore, Ethel Waters, Cicely Tyson, with whom I share a differently… Read More Imagining: Black Women, Black Girls

I began working from home last week. This coming week, my library is actually closing for spring break. While I won’t have to perform library duties, I have a long list of long term projects to work on ranging from getting a book proposed and written to making a quilt for my youngest grandbaby and… Read More SundayMorningReads