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Alli Myatt
Feb 29, 20242 min read
Day 29 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Give Black Women Their Flowers
I can't remember the exact age I was when someone told me I was doing too much - I think I was about 3 years old. So many Black women -...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 28, 20241 min read
Day 28 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Niecy Nash-Betts
Niecy Nash-Betts won her first Emmy Award in January and she honored Black women who were unheard and over-policed like Breonna Taylor...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 27, 20241 min read
Day 27 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Quinta Brunson
Quinta Brunson has built a career around being her authentic self. She has said she wanted to create content for herself and for others...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 26, 20242 min read
Day 26 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Minda Harts
Minda Harts wrote her first book, The Memo, as a love letter to Black women. And you can feel the love for Black women and other women...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 25, 20241 min read
Day 25 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Tracee Ellis Ross
Tracee Ellis Ross is a trailblazer. Many of us know her for her work in TV and film and for being the daughter of the immaculate Diana...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 24, 20242 min read
Day 24 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: J LeShaé Jenkins
Freedom obsessed. That's how Ms. J LeShaé Jenkins website describes her. And I think it's an absolutely perfect description. I met Ms....
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Alli Myatt
Feb 23, 20242 min read
Day 23 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Vanity Jenkins
Vanity Jenkins is unapologetically Pro-Black. Vanity is the founder and CEO of ShiftED Consulting, a firm focused on eradicating racism...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 22, 20242 min read
Day 22 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Marsha Jones
Marsha Jones centers the wisdom of Black women. https://buff.ly/3OPW0RO Jones founded The Afiya Center, a reproductive justice...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 22, 20242 min read
Day 21 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Kristina Ashley Williams
Kristina Ashley Williams is a futurist and an educator. I came across her work, when my friend Sarah Baltazar-Pinheiro introduced us, and...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 22, 20241 min read
Day 20 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Tina Turner
Tina Turner embodied freedom. I recently went to the musical that chronicled her life, and it reminded me of how inspiring her life was....
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Alli Myatt
Feb 19, 20241 min read
Day 19 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Lucy Castillo
Lucy Castillo is one of the most efficient people I know. I often marvel at all the things she's able to do personally and...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 18, 20242 min read
Day 18 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison would have been 93 today. Ms. Morrison wielded her mighty pen like a sword. Toni Morrison could WRITE. The way she weaved...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 17, 20241 min read
Day 17 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Rihanna
Today I'm going to pass flowers to the artist Rihanna. Rihanna is one of the few musicians that owns her own masters, which means she is...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 16, 20241 min read
Day 16 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Andrea "Philly" Walls
Andrea "Philly" Walls created the Museum of Black Joy to celebrate the non-traumatic experience of Black people in Philadelphia and to...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 15, 20242 min read
Day 15 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Viva Asmelash
Viva Asmelash is a delight! One of my favorite managers of all time, Diana Lee, connected us a few years back, and I'm so glad that she...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 14, 20241 min read
Day 14 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Ericka Hines
On this day that we are celebrating love, I want to give flowers to Ericka Hines, the writer of The Black Women Thriving report and...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 13, 20241 min read
Day 13 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Rhonda Broussard
It's Mardi Gras and it feels like I should absolutely send flowers to New Orleanian Rhonda Broussard, the CEO of Beloved Community. I...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 12, 20242 min read
Day 12 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Beyoncé
On the day after she broke the internet, I'm giving flowers to Beyoncé. In case you missed it, Beyoncé announced that she'll be dropping...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 11, 20241 min read
Day 11 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Yamileé Toussaint
February 11 is #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, and I can think of few better people to celebrate than Yamileé Toussaint. When...
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Alli Myatt
Feb 10, 20242 min read
Day 10 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Brandi Johnson
Brandi Johnson might be one of the most fashionable people I know. When I would run into Brandi in Houston when I lived there, I would...
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