Prominent Black women leaders share their insights and calls to action for how we can progress racial equity and why it's so important to advance Black women's leadership.
Between the global pandemic, the groundswell of support for the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the recent loss of civil rights giants, it seems like the world is finally beginning to acknowledge that there is serious collective work to be done if we hope to see social change in our lifetime. I’ve heard a few people say this time feels different.
Over the years, many of us have come to realize the importance of Black female leadership to the advancement of social justice movements. We want to support Black women and follow your leadership. What action or show of support would you say is most critical to realizing representation in leadership across sectors?
So we’ve always had, in a patriarchal society, an idea about what leadership looks like, what gender it comes in, and that means we’ve missed out on real strong possibilities to build a movement that understands anti-Black racism in more fully realized ways across the gender spectrum.
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