Intelligence is an intentional word-play response to the call for Black women genius monologues. The story of Doris “Lucki” Allen has captured my imagination since I first encountered primary material about her in the archives of the Women in Military Service of America Foundation. Lucki is best known in military history for predicting several events, including the Tet …
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Members of the 6888th Central Directory Battalion (CDDB), the military’s only unit of black women to serve overseas, pass in review during a parade, Birmingham, England 1945, Gladys Thomas Anderson Collection, Women’s Memorial Foundation Collection.
I didn't think I was going to get this grant because there appeared to be a poet purist on the selection committee who didn't think a visual artist/poet/playwright/karate black belt/samba dancer/Berkeley MBA making a living in finance would ever pool it off – "not going to happen," she told her fellow judges/jurists. She used Paul …
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