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Navigating Two Worlds – The Tension Between Protection and Exposure in Black Households Blogs

Navigating Two Worlds – The Tension Between Protection and Exposure in Black Households

Every Black household knows the tension: How do we protect our children from a world…

audreytmccluskeyNovember 26, 2025

Why Memoirs of Black Girlhood Are Essential Reading Today Blogs

Why Memoirs of Black Girlhood Are Essential Reading Today

There is a particular power in a Black woman saying, “This is what my girlhood…

audreytmccluskeyNovember 26, 2025

From Segregation to Self-Discovery – One Woman’s Journey Through Changing Times Blogs

From Segregation to Self-Discovery – One Woman’s Journey Through Changing Times

There’s a quiet shock in realizing that the world you grew up in has become…

audreytmccluskeyNovember 26, 2025

The Importance of Place – What the Rural South Teaches About Community Blogs

The Importance of Place – What the Rural South Teaches About Community

City life often gets the spotlight in movies and books. Skyscrapers, traffic, bright lights, constant…

audreytmccluskeyNovember 26, 2025

Reclaiming Childhood – Turning Painful History Into Healing Narratives Blogs

Reclaiming Childhood – Turning Painful History Into Healing Narratives

There is a difference between remembering and reclaiming. Remembering is what happens when a smell,…

audreytmccluskeyNovember 26, 2025

Growing Up Black and Female – Double Barriers, Double Strength Blogs

Growing Up Black and Female – Double Barriers, Double Strength

To grow up Black in the Jim Crow South was to carry a weight. To…

audreytmccluskeyNovember 26, 2025

Storytelling as Survival – Why Black Narratives Must Continue to Be Told Blogs

Storytelling as Survival – Why Black Narratives Must Continue to Be Told

Before anything was written down, it was spoken. Around kitchen tables, on front porches, after…

audreytmccluskeyNovember 26, 2025

The Unspoken Rules of Jim Crow – What Children Saw, Felt, and Understood Blogs

The Unspoken Rules of Jim Crow – What Children Saw, Felt, and Understood

Jim Crow wasn’t just a set of laws on paper; it was a thick, invisible…

audreytmccluskeyNovember 26, 2025