Performing our #Standing4BlackGirls song, lyrics and melody by me and Zorrie w/multi-talented artist .Honey Blu🍯 Women's Leadership Project first open house amplifying 20+ years of providing prevention education and advocacy for Black girls, girls of color and queer youth in South L.A.

'Alice made history, becoming the first black woman to co-write a #1 country song.'
A massive thank you to NBC for this piece on My Black Country. Watch the full video at this link!
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Supreme Court’s Blow to Right to Protest Is Another Attack on Black Political Power capitalbnews.org/mississippi-bl…

If you think that trash you just heard from the Supreme Court about protecting J6 rioters will *ever* be applied to peaceful Black protesters, think again. Just yesterday, the Court allowed Louisiana to continue hunting deray
My latest in The Nation
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Thanks for the boost of our music!

On #BlackMaternalHealthWeek .Pregnancy Justice | @pregnancyjust.bsky.social Karin Thompson on maternal mortality, pregnancy and criminalization: States with the highest Black maternal mortality rates also have the highest rates of criminalization and the most draconian abortion bans
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My 1st album! At 64! What an amazing early birthday present genius women have given me by carving joy & history & love into these tracks! Join the party that began in a Motown cherry tree. Lil, DeFord, Ray, Charley, and Herb, the first family of Black Country, this is for you!

How Trump minions are conspiring to elevate third party candidates to divert votes away from Biden and ensure a second Trump regime
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New music:
Forty rooms for forty stories
sleepwalkers howling at the gate
hooked a mic up to my past self
picked that fugitive's lunar brain
Map of darkness in iron fists
keyholes of death on hatchet faces
wolf crying white girl gave the mob word
families massing to take the bait

Absolutely insidious. Making scholarships sponsored by African American organizations even more important Black Skeptics Group L.A.

Marqueece Harris-Dawson Karen Bass
This is Sexual Assault Awareness month. There's adisproportionate amount of sexual assault among Black Girls and Women in your communities? What say you? Your silence is concerning. This piece from Sikivu Hutchinson is informative
aninjusticemag.com/our-communitie…

The new audiobook for my #scifibooks speculative fiction/horror collection 'The Roar of Distant Engines', is narrated by the phenom actress El Piard. El reads an excerpt from my story 'Rule of the Jungle'. Available Audible bit.ly/4cFAGck #amwritingfiction

Had the opportunity to perform #Standing4BlackGirls theme song with youth singer-songwriter & activist Honey Blu🍯 at Women's Leadership Project recent open house uplifting 20+ years of Black feminist humanist prevention education advocacy and programming for Black girls open.spotify.com/track/0PBP6stx…

In Wisconsin, Black women were 20x more likely to be killed than white women. Findings confirm the disproportionate rate of violence targeting Black women that domestic violence advocates such as .Ujima Community have been working to raise awareness of
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Looking forward to reading this book as a #Blackcountryrock and folk guitarist and songwriter!

Black women are six times more likely to be killed than white women, new The Lancet data reveals. 51% were related to intimate partner homicide. 'Many Black families have women as head of the households. What does that mean for our Black families??”
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Today Women's Leadership Project will have its first open house fundraiser amplifying programming, advocacy & mentoring for Black girls & queer youth. Excerpt from our City of Los Angeles council testimony challenging elected officials to address violence against Black women & girls bit.ly/4aoyJik

#SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth Aishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her) Lambda Literary winning book
'Love With Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse' features essays from Black survivors envisioning a world that ends childhood sexual abuse w/out policing & prisons youtu.be/CsV4Xzh3Pu8?si…

This month is #SexualAssaultAwareness month. .Aishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her) groundbreaking, vital 'NO! The Rape Documentary” is one of the only films to confront the epidemic of sexual violence and misogynoir in African American communities from the perspectives of Black women vimeo.com/afrolez/no25an…

On April 7th Women's Leadership Project will hold its first open house and fundraiser celebrating over 20 years of advocacy and programing for Black girls, girls of color and queer youth in South L.A. The event will feature students, partners and artists! Info & support
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