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Day 8 of #28LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Ayodele Casel

This Black History Month, I’m sharing art, songs, movies, and other creative expressions from and about Black women that spark joy for...

Alli Myatt

Feb 81 min read

Day 7 of #28LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Zora Neale Hurston

This Black History Month, I’m sharing art, songs, movies, and other creative expressions from and about Black women that spark joy for...

Alli Myatt

Feb 72 min read

Day 6 of #28LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Sheryl Lee Ralph

This Black History Month, I’m sharing art, songs, movies, and other creative expressions from and about Black women that spark joy for...

Alli Myatt

Feb 61 min read

Day 5 of #28LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Amber Ruffin

This Black History Month, I’m sharing art, songs, movies, and other creative expressions from and about Black women that spark joy for...

Alli Myatt

Feb 52 min read

Day 4 of #28LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Doechii, The Swamp Princess

This Black History Month, I’m sharing art, songs, movies, and other creative expressions from and about Black women that spark joy for...

Alli Myatt

Feb 42 min read

Day 3 of #28LoveLettersToBlackWomen: Sweet Honey In The Rock

This Black History Month, I’m sharing art, songs, movies, and other creative expressions from and about Black women that spark joy for...

Alli Myatt

Feb 31 min read

Day 2 of #28LoveLetterstoBlackWomen: Amy Sherald

This Black History Month, I’m sharing art, songs, movies, and other creative expressions from and about Black women that spark joy for...

Alli Myatt

Feb 21 min read

Day 1 of #28LoveLetterstoBlackWomen: Franchesca Ramsey

Picture of Franchesca Ramsey by Brianhe, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Two years...

Alli Myatt

Feb 12 min read

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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