Katrina Bell McDonald on the Sisterhood of Black Women

“While writing her first book, Krieger School sociologist Katrina Bell McDonald had in mind a very specific title — a title that name-dropped the book’s inspiration — only to have her publisher’s legal department nix the famous moniker at the last minute. If all had gone according to plan, Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity and Contemporary [...]

The CBC: Shuckin’ & Jivin’

The Chicago Defender’s Roland S. Martin discusses the wasted opportunity of the Congressional Black Caucus.“For the last four years I’ve traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate as a panelist or moderator of a workshop during the annual legislative conference put on by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.”
“The repeated failure of leadership by [...]