#BlackGirlsMatter: Names of 180 Nigerian abducted school girls released

The Northern States Christian and Elders Forum has released 180 names of abducted female pupils of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. We Speak Your Names. 1 Deborah Abge Chrstian 2. Awa Abge ” 3. Hauwa Yirma ” 4. Asabe Manu ” 5. Mwa Malam pogu ” 6. Patiant Dzakwa ” 7. Saraya Mal....

AFRICA & THE DIASPORA

#bringbackourgirls, Chibok Girls, Nigeria, spotlight

May 2, 2014

Rape-Marriage of Nigerian Girls is ‘Biblical Marriage’

The concept of rape marriage is not unique to these villains or their perversion of Islam. The Jewish and Christian scriptures have their own rape texts.

AFRICA & THE DIASPORA, FAITH

Bible, biblical marriage, boko haram, islam, judaism, marriage, misogyny, Rape, Slavery, spotlight

May 2, 2014

Bring Back Our Daughters

These Nigerian girls are our daughters; black girls everywhere are our daughters and their lives matter. We are commanded to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, so may we do for these Nigerian children what we would do if 234 girls from Germany or Spain or Ireland were kidnapped from their dorm rooms - turn the world upside down until they are found.

AFRICA & THE DIASPORA

#bringbackourgirls, Nigeria, spotlight, Yolanda Pierce

May 1, 2014

TransAfrica President Nicole C. Lee Resigns

Nicole C. Lee, Esq has resigned as president of TransAfrica, the legendary rights organization which became a nonprofit in 1977 and is famous for its historic work to free the late Nelson Mandela from imprisonment. Lee was the first woman to lead the organization. Her eight-year term was second in length to Randall Robinson, the founder of the organization.

AFRICA & THE DIASPORA

Danny Glover, Global Justice, Human Rights, Mandela, Nicole Lee, Randall Robinson, spotlight, TransAfrica

April 29, 2014

Black Girls Matter

Are black girls such a cheap commodity that their lives can be quickly erased from the human balance sheet?

AFRICA & THE DIASPORA

Borno State, Chibok, Nigeria, spotlight, Yolanda Pierce

April 21, 2014

Womanist Theology at Union: A Past, a Present — a Future?

The premiere of visionary Womanist filmmaker and Union alumna Anika Gibbons’s “Journey to Liberation: The Legacy of Womanist Theology,” brought the voice of Katie Cannon inside James Chapel to disrupt the “epistemological sea of forgetfulness” and admonish us to “tell our truths, ‘anyway’, even when they tell us our truth is a lie… tell it, ‘anyway’.”

CULTURE

Anika Gibbons, spotlight, Union, Womanist Theology

April 21, 2014

DC Event to Highlight Murders of Black People by Police

Alongside The SpiritHouse Project, on Wednesday, April 22nd at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 400 I Street, SW at 1:00 p.m. these courageous women intend to break the silence on these 21st century anti-Black hate crimes that police, vigilantes and security guards commit on a daily basis. This is a national epidemic that occurs throughout the United States.

PUBLIC LIFE

Ruby Sales, Spirit House Project, spotlight, Susan K. Smith

#BlackGirlsMatter: Names of 180 Nigerian abducted school girls released

Monica Moss Speaks Out Against Human Trafficking

Rape-Marriage of Nigerian Girls is ‘Biblical Marriage’

Bring Back Our Daughters

TransAfrica President Nicole C. Lee Resigns

Black Girls Matter

Womanist Theology at Union: A Past, a Present — a Future?

Vanetta Rather: Bring Back All Our Girls #UpliftNigeria

DC Event to Highlight Murders of Black People by Police

Lisa Sharon Harper Urges Prayer to #UpliftNigeria

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