Month: March 2015

I attended the Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival tonight and was delighted that their opening night film was a documentary titled The Empowerment Project. The question they opened and closed the film with was What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail? The documentary chronicled an all woman film crew on a cross-country journey…

I had the pleasure of attending a Women’s History Month screening of the documentary You Belong To Me: The Ruby McCollum Story. Shouts out the San Fernando Valley Chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and The Links, Inc. It was a story I had never heard before. An affluent Black women in Live Oak,…

After having a talk with a friend on a major relationship issue she was having, she shared with me that in a moment of desperation to get her boyfriend’s attention she called him “Nigga.” He took offense, she apologized, but once it’s out there it’s a scar and cannot be undone. She’s not Black and…