Women’s History Month: A Tribute to Maya Angelou
As we settle into Women’s History Month, I think of all the women who came before me, all the women who made space for…
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Is Anybody Listening? – A Poem by Natalie Patterson
Is Anybody Listening? We are a nation of opinions Someone is always talking Which leads me to wonder, Who is listening? Who is taking…
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Meant to Be – A Poem by Natalie Patterson
It is because you are meant to be that you are Standing in your sun kissed skin You are radiant and brilliant You…
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Nipsey Hussle – The Marathon Man
Ermias Asghedom, a child of the 1980’s crack epidemic and gang violence, learned to navigate and survive the systematic complexities of growing up black,…
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Found Angels – A Poem by Natalie Patterson
There are people in every generation who are willing Willing to stand To step up To do the work We call you The fighters…
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Children in Jail: Healing Trauma with Poetry
Do you remember going to camp as a child? I certainly do. I spent every summer from about when I was six to fourteen…
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Is Anybody Listening? – A Poem by Natalie Patterson
Is Anybody Listening? We are a nation of opinions Someone is always talking Which leads me to wonder, Who is listening? Who is taking…
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‘13th’, A Conversation with Ava Du Vernay and Oprah Winfrey
“As I went to explain what was happening now, it became unreasonable and incomplete to try to tell the story of now without telling…
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Women’s History Month: A Tribute to Maya Angelou
As we settle into Women’s History Month, I think of all the women who came before me, all the women who made space for…
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What First Lady Michelle Obama Means To Me – An Essay by Natalie Patterson
It was 2007. I was too young to realize I was political, and there was a senator two of my friends could not stop talking…
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Women’s March: Los Angeles, January 21, 2017 – Reflections ~
I originally had no plan to attend the Women’s March LA. I have found the feminist community to be very white women focused and…
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Is Anybody Listening? A Poem by Natalie Patterson
We are a nation of opinions Someone is always talking Which leads me to wonder, Who is listening? Who is taking note? Who is…
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