“What is unpleasant to some people is news for others…” -Tina Turner, 1993 Canadian Interview Dear Ms. Turner, In interviews you’ve said the movie “What’s Love Got to Do With It” barely scratched the surface of your real-life abuse. I cannot imagine being married to man who would hit me with a shoe stretcher or…
By BrassyBrown.com Editor Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy is a Haitian born mixed media artist. Her love of black women, families, nature, Afrofuturism, comics, graphic novels and the African diaspora are central themes in her work. Her creative process seeks to explore the complexities and/or simplicities of: identity, womanism, motherhood, racism, Eros, spirituality, cosmetology, ancestral alchemy and beauty.…
We are starting off Black History Month with an interview with Dillard University’s Kiki Baker Barnes. 1. Congratulations on being named President of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC). You’re the first African-American “Female” to be given the title. How does it feel to be a history maker? Thank you. I didn’t set out to make history. My goal has…
Mary Webb, Guest Blogger In 1996 when I graduated from college, I caught the first train out of New Orleans, swearing two things – I was going to go as far as I could from this city, and I was never going to come back to it. If God really does laugh at the plans…
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Meet Danette Thierry, Warren Easton Charter High School Social Studies Teacher Brassy Brown: What inspired you to be a teacher? D.T. I think I always knew that I wanted to be a teacher. I was two years into my engineering program at LSU, but deep down I knew being an engineer was not in my…
By Kelly Harris, BrassyBrown.com Founder/Editor Last year I sat on a panel called Creating Community for Writers of Color with fellow Melanated Writer members at the Rising Tide Conference at Xavier University. The all-black panel stared back at a predominantly white audience. We began a little sluggish, perhaps nervous or not quite awake for the…
By Ambata Kazi-Nance, Guest Blogger My son and I were having dinner a few nights ago when he started talking about his school day. “Eloise gave me her skin, Mama,” he said with a laugh. “I’m sorry, she did what?” “Her skin, her pink skin.” Now, being the mother of a brown boy, alarm bells…
Deirdre Johnson Burel, executive director of Orleans Public Education Network, talks education with BrassyBrown. Deidre is dedicated to improving education— especially for children of color. She is a visionary who works tirelessly in the office and the community, and we are happy to have her as our guest blogger on education this month. You may…
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