Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.

I would want to know that my daughter is going to enjoy a long, happy and healthy life.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.

While the establishment Republican candidates are busy doing this, attacking each other, and doing everything they can to bring each other down, they seem to be missing the bull`s-eye. They`re missing the targets.

Undoubtedly, the biggest influence on my life is my mom, followed pretty closely by my dad.

I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous.