“There are also women I have never met but who are recorded in the pages of history and whose lives and struggles inspire me and thousands of other working women to keep putting one foot in front of another every day.” – Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Judge Ketanji...
“The time for a Negro magazine, the time for a Negro Digest or an Ebony or JET, had come and nothing could stop it if-and it’s a big if – the idea could find a man or a woman who willing to do anything or almost anything, to make the time come.” -John H. Johnson John...
“I know what I have to do, and I’m going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I’ll come out a winner, and it doesn’t matter what anyone else does.” – Florence Griffith Joyner Florence Griffith Joyner aka Flo-Jo is one of my inspirations for more reasons than...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama Who better exemplifies being “the change that we seek” than the very first Black president of...
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -James Baldwin Change is defined as something that produces a different position, course, or direction. In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, I felt it was...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama Who better exemplifies being “the change that we seek” than the very first Black president of...
“Meaningful change often happens as a result of a revelation rather than a resolution.” – Viola Davis Revelation is defined as a surprising and previously unknown fact. Nineteen Fifty-Six Magazine was founded on the revelation that there was nothing like...