We are one week away from election day and Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Leah Daughtry and Yolanda Caraway, who wrote For colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. We just had an extremely violent and deadly week and it will most likely have an impact it will have on midterms. Daughtry hopes it encourages people to […]
Since it’s almost Halloween Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with the founders of Black Witch University, Lakeesha Harris and Lorena Bostic-Seals. Black Witch University in its second year and currently holding classes in Louisiana. Harris explains that these beliefs and practices go back to Africa. She says this culture was stripped from us by […]
Breast cancer is the most common type of breast cancer among Black women, and often times we don’t survive it. Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Dr. Lori Wilson, a breast cancer surgeon and survivor. Wilson was diagnosed with stage three breast caner in 2013, right after she stopped breastfeeding her son. She initially […]
Jacque Reid goes Inisde Her Story with the first female drum major in the history of the Marching 100. Cori Bostic remembers stepping onto the field for the first time as a drum major as a, “humbling” experience. She admits that the job requires “a lot of hard work” and, there are “not a lot […]
This week marks the One year anniversary of the #MeToo movement going viral. Initially people thought a white actress named Alyssa Milano started the movement, after she began using the hashtag to encourage people who have been assaulted to speak out. But Black women were not having it, they took to the internet to give […]
Hearing Dr. Ford’s testimony during the Kavanaugh hearings, was a trigger for many survivors of sexual assault. Especially those who are struggling with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story psychotherapist Margena Carter, who specializes in treating victims of trauma. Carter explains that the hearings could have been especially triggering for survivors […]
You know the hit song Lady Marmalade from the group Labelle. One of the group’s members, Nona Hendryx has stayed busy since then by mentoring and teaching young girls about careers in science, technology and math. Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Ms. Hendryx about her program called SisteSMATR. Hendryx noticed that she was […]
The big question right now is whether or not Dr. Christine Ford will testify against Brett Kavanaugh. The Senate has given her a deadline of Monday to testify. Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Sherrilyn Ifill, President & Director-Counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Ifill says that the Judiciary Committee should know what […]
In April a video of two police officers wrestling a black woman to the floor of an Alabama Waffle House went viral. The woman’s bare breasts were exposed and she says that the whole incident started when she asked for plastic silverware. Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Chikesia Clemons, who was slammed to […]
An image was published in an Australian comic that showed a cartoon Serena Williams with “exaggerated features” and “masculine or Ape like” body. Many people who saw the image feel it’s sexist and racist. Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with professor, and writer for the New York Times, Salamishah Tillet who was at the […]
Today is the fourth day of hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court. Many are concerned about his stance on reproductive rights, especially Roe v Wade; which gives women the right to have an abortion. Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Tamika Mallory, the national co-chair for the Women’s March. Earlier this week, […]
Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Sherrilyn Ifill. Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing starts today and Ifill says that’s ridiculous. “This hearing should not be happening,” especially because the president who nominated him is basically, “an unindited conspirator,” she said. The Supreme Court is the highest authority […]
