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ARCHULETACHISOLM
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Apr 15, 20194 min read
Body Shaming in the Church
Growing up in church, I heard sermons on just about every subject. But you could always be certain of what you were going to get on...
Mar 25, 20193 min read
The Incident And Its Place In History
Twenty-six years ago, it was the hot topic of every news media outlet. Late night talk show hosts and even Saturday Night Live took their...
Mar 21, 20193 min read
Beth and Randall (spoiler alert)
These days, I don’t spend a lot of time watching network television. But on Tuesday nights at 9:00 pm, I am front and center for This Is...
Mar 11, 20192 min read
What Manipulated Women Look Like
After watching the unbelievable interview Gayle King conducted with R. Kelly last week, we then witnessed his two alleged victims insist...
Mar 7, 20192 min read
A Lesson in Women Helping Other Women
In the days since Jordyn Woods’ interview on Red Table Talk, social media has dissected this situation down to the bare bones. Jordyn sat...
Mar 4, 20192 min read
You Exist, You Matter, You Are Here
By the time I was born, my Nana had retired from a long career as a licensed practical nurse. I never saw her in uniform or was able to...
Feb 11, 20193 min read
Respect Still Has To Matter, Dan
In the late nineties, I can remember turning on the television on Saturday mornings and watching this beautiful, intelligent, incredibly...
Jan 21, 20192 min read
The Greater Good
My sister gave birth to my first niece in 2016. A year prior to that, I moved to Houston, Texas so I wasn’t able to be with her through...
Jan 18, 20193 min read
R Kelly: What We've Always Known
In 1993, I was a 21 year old junior in college. Music has always been a big part of my life, and back then it was TLC, Boyz to Men, En...
Jan 14, 20192 min read
Monday Motivation: Who Are You Becoming?
In November 2018, I had the opportunity to attend Michelle Obama’s Becoming tour in Los Angeles. My cousin flew in from Kansas City, and...
Oct 22, 20182 min read
Motivation Monday: Don't Let Social Media Tell You Who You Are
If you’ve been on social media for any length of time, you may have felt like you weren’t doing enough. It appears everyone is living...
Sep 19, 20182 min read
From Schoolhouse to the White House: Alice Dunnigan
Alice Allison Dunnigan, the daughter of a Kentucky sharecropper, dreamed of becoming a journalist. She fought through segregation and...
Sep 13, 20182 min read
About That Racist Cartoon
It seems that every other day, we are reading or seeing something in the news about Black women being abused and mistreated in some way....
Sep 12, 20182 min read
Black Women Writers, Racism and Sexism
In Carlene Hatcher Polite’s 1967 novel, “The Flagellants”, the main character describes her love affair with a Black poet as “irrevocable...
Aug 20, 20183 min read
How Sexism Exposes So Much More
In 2018, we are witnessing how the ugliness of patriarchy and misogyny are harming this nation. On Thursday, August 16, Gregory-Lincoln...
Aug 13, 20182 min read
Apology Not Accepted
A couple of few weeks ago, I was listening to the radio in my car when a new song by Ne-Yo came blasting through the speakers. The song...
Jul 31, 20182 min read
The Punch Down
Last Sunday night, 18-year-old Nia Wilson was fatally stabbed by John Lee Cowell on a train platform at the MacArthur BART station. Nia’s...
Jul 25, 20182 min read
More Than Enough
Women are incredible. This is fact. Besides the miraculous ability to bring another human life into the world, women can do things men...
Jul 17, 20182 min read
The Silence of Women
In today’s culture, talking is strongly connected to the notion of freedom, equality, intelligence, and honesty. As women, not all of us...
Jun 6, 20182 min read
A Letter To My Younger Self
Dear Beautiful Chocolate Girl, I look into your big, brown eyes and see the possibilities of myself. In this photo, you just turned five...
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