Tag: average Black girl

• How Ernestine Johnson Made Me Check Myself With Her Poem “The Average Black Girl”

  

  Who exactly are we referring to when we say “the average Black girl”? A term so widely used and very manipulative. I have asked myself this question plenty of times before. But never before did I have to walk to the nearest mirror I could find and demand I evaluate where I stood on the matter […]

  C.S.J.

  March 25, 2015

  GIRL POWER, QUOTES, RACE POLITICS/RACISM, SEXISM+GENDER, SOCIETY, TV, VIDEO

  average Black girl, Ernestine Johnson, female spoken word, poems, The Arsenio Hall Show, think pieces