The Era of the Black Woman is Now
4 min readOct 17, 2020
We are living in the era of the Black woman, and it’s about damn time!
Throughout my nearly four decades of living, I’ve watched Black women perform magic. I watched my mother, a Ghanaian immigrant, do the unimaginable. According to her, she stood on her feet sewing jeans in a Levi’s factory until the day before I was born. Can you imagine that? There’s no question where I get my tenacity and…