I begin this piece with a test on your ability to immediately recognize the names of the following five prominent Black women in the United States. Any luck?
Lisa Cook, Federal Reserve Board member
Latitia James Attorney General, New York
Ketanji Brown-Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Stacey Abrams, former Georgia State Representative
Jasmine Crockett, Texas State Representative
Continue reading The Realities of Dark-Skinned Black Women – by Terry Howard
As a lifelong basketball fanatic – and a years ago mediocre point guard on my high school team, my unconscious (okay, conscious) bias against the game as it is played by women got, “slam dunked” on during the recent NCAA women’s basketball tournament.
Wow, what have I been missing all these years? Heck, the girls’ championship game, watched by 9.9 million viewers, the highest ever, was a lot more exciting to me than the boys’ games.
Continue reading “Nappy-headed hoes (2.0)” – by Terry Howard