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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 -...
Alli Myatt
Feb 29, 20242 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 27, 20241 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 26, 20242 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 25, 20241 min read
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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....
Alli Myatt
Feb 24, 20242 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 23, 20242 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 22, 20242 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 22, 20242 min read
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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....
Alli Myatt
Feb 22, 20241 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 19, 20241 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 18, 20242 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 17, 20241 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 15, 20242 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 13, 20241 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 12, 20242 min read
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Day 11 of #29LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Yamileé Toussaint
February 11 is #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, and I can think of few better people to celebrate than Yamileé Toussaint. When...
Alli Myatt
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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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...
Alli Myatt
Feb 10, 20242 min read
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