“His Axe Has Found Your Tree…”

This line was taken from a poet named ithielios on TikTok. This poem was posted May 5, 2022. The video is available as a duet on my TikTok page, whatjayesaid2.0. …

January 2021 Book Review-TEACHING MY MOTHER TO GIVE BIRTH by Warsan Shire

Say her name correctly. War-san. Shur-ruh. She was a force of nature on pages before Beyoncé found her, asking her to be a part of her most ambitious projects (Leomonade …

When They See Us: The Community Needs To Value Women!

In this crazy space we all occupy, it seems that Black women are a galvanizing force and the same fodder trampled for the movement’s success. In the same month where …

Firestarter Hotsheet: Human (Read: Sex) Trafficking

Sex trafficking, human trafficking, is not a myth. I want you to remember that the most vulnerable populations in the country are female. I want you remember that to be …

RUNITBACK FRIDAY-08/30/2019

So…The Amazon is still burning; the case against the dead Jeffrey “I got all b!tches and black books” Epstein is closed—only to find out it was ring of Madams under …

The Righteous Work Of JAMAA Birth Village

The US has the “highest rate of maternal mortality in the industrialized world.” In the United States, the maternal death rate averaged 9.1 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births during the years 1979–1986, but then rose rapidly …

RUNITBACK FRIDAY-07/05/2019

Soo…airports were in the American Revolution? Cori “CoCo” Graff is out here looking like the young Venus Williams–and BEAT VENUS WILLIAMS! And folk are big mad Ariel us going to …

The Boldness Of One Black, Female Teacher: The Legacy Of Mary McLeod Bethune

  Mary Mcleod Bethune (July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was a Black teacher and humanitarian. However, our ancestral auntie is best known for starting a private school for …

RUNITBACK FRIDAY- 03/08/2019

Paul Manafort out here looking like a stunt gangster Scorsese would hire, Orange Hitler hugging a flag like he wanna rob it and Robert Sylvester Kelly screaming at Oprah’s bestie …

RUNITBACK FRIDAY 03/02/2019

Michael Cohen is the best kind of snitch, Billy Porter is snatching edges, wigs and waist trainers and Green Book is not, was not the Best Picture of 2018. No …