What one woman accomplished in her 88 years

Meet The Wonderful Women of The Privilege of VOTING!

An Open invitation to my friends in and around New York next Monday 4/6  6:30 pm– but be home in time for my show The Suffragettes = The Desperate Housewives??? You’re invited to go behind the scenes! Light dinner, hot pix and JUICY details… This coming Monday — April 6th at 6:30 in New York [...]

Message to Certain Blacks in Oakland: I’m Tired of Your Lame Excuses

Guest Post By Robert Oliver Yes, that’s right. You love your blackness more than you love common sense, sometimes even more than your own people. Must I sue for divorce from the Black community on the grounds of mental cruelty? I’m black. I grew up in Chicago, the most segregated city in the North. I’m [...]

STOP HURTING MY SISTER

By: Barbara Budd Bassett I have read all of the posts and comments on the whataboutourdaughters site and the one constant on both of our sites is the heart of the women that cries out “Stop hurting my sister” I have long believed the problem for women in our efforts to move forward and address [...]

What About Our Daughters

I’ve asked before and I’ll ask again- Where is good ole Al Sharpton to stand up for his sisters of color when his brothers of color hurt them? He sure has plenty to say when a white man touches one of them but as long as it’s black on black – he lets then slaughter [...]

Why do the women return?

A Mighty Rant by: BettyJean Kling Look whose getting all the support! Do you see the abused getting the support? No! The abuser is caught on tape abusing the woman- she has 20 stitches- he was released immediately – he was at her side as was his powerful family and his friends from the minute [...]

This is what women supporting OTHER women looks like!!

Thanks for forwarding this to me Toni from LI/NY Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison spoke at The Women’s Museum in Fair Park to a crowd of 400 at a program entitled “Stories From the Top: Their Odyssey.” The event celebrated Women’s History Month. (Video/editing: Michael Ainsworth) Story March [...]

The Reality Behind the Reality Star’s Cancer Death

Cross Posted from: American Forum http://amforumbacklog.blogspot.com/2009/03/reality-behind-reality-stars-cancer.html By Tamika Felder British reality star Jade Goody, who rose to stardom overseas by exposing nearly every aspect of her life to a hungry media audience, has recently died, with the media in tow, of cervical cancer. She was only 27 and has left behind two young sons, ages [...]

Yet another lie sealed with a kiss

My blog piece the other day You are not alone anymore! explained why women often refuse to testify and why they go back to their abusers. It’s complicated – there are no simple answers and most often the reasons range from and include lack of self esteem , child abuse, fear of abuser, terror, pressure from [...]

You are not alone anymore!

There is so much we do not understand about why women refuse to testify against the men that abuse them and why many return to their abusers. There are many professionals out there who will give you logical and seemingly illogical reasons and they are all right but when you ask the victims they often [...]