I had no idea that Black women only get 0.2 percent of all venture capital investments until I was looking and saying, “Where’s the money?
I fight White supremacy by raising my daughter to take up space and make her voice heard in a world that wants to quiet her. Rochelle Rice, musician.
I organize faith leaders and people of faith to dismantle White supremacy and structural racism through the power of representing voices and practices.
We must acknowledge that we are the dreams of our ancestors and that our fight will require a long view and the ability to bounce back from one painful setback after another.
The United States has figured out a way to bend a false interpretation of Christianity to undergird, and make sense of, a logic of White supremacy and racial hierarchy.
Dedication. The battle we’re in requires “the act of devoting all of one’s energy, effort, and abilities to a certain task,” as the Muhammad Ali Center boasts on its walls. Folks.
The power of Black philanthropy must be multiplied for us to secure the fuel to keep fighting.
Ali always wondered why the press never talked about his supreme commitment to roadwork.