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I AM | WE ARE the WOMEN: A Call to Arms

Fri, March 18, 9:00 to 10:15am, Omni Charlotte Hotel, Floor: Main Floor, Poplar Room

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In her latest contribution, Beyoncé continues to remind us that she indeed can make the world stop! Formation is her most political song to date. Lyrically and visually she embraces her history|culture, unabashedly explains her preferences (in the black vernacular), ascetically rings the alarm for a call to action, all while expounding on the clarity of her mental state. “She’s Woke!”

“My daddy Alabama, momma Louisiana / you mix that negro with that creole make a Texas bamma/ I like my baby hair, with baby hair and afros/ I like my negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils ” #Beyoncé Formation

One needs not to remind any black woman the duplicity used in the American workplace. There has been many a day when one has arrived at the interview with straightened hair or one is careful to have a non-opinioned answer at the water cooler. A call to order is needed...
Being a woman, being black, being unapologetic in both womanhood and blackness continues to unveil parts of the Black woman that was once left at the door to survive (although some would say appease). Having to choose how to wear hair to an interview is no longer an option. The women are failing into formation. The WOMAN has decided, I AM; commanding attention, and applauding her strengths the entire way. It should not go unnoticed that women have decided enough is enough and the norm will no longer be: attack me, attack my being, my culture, or kill my children.

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