Black girls deserve their childhoods.

Remember how I failed the October bar with a score of 266? I just PASSED THE TENNESSEE BAR WITH A 281!

Update: y’all are going to have to make some room for me in the 5% because I PASSED THE BAR EXAM IN ALL UBE JURISDICTIONS.

I didn’t realize how poor I was until I got a good job. Education and a middle class salary can not undo the long term economic and emotional damage of living most of your life in poverty.

Joined the 2%😭🙌🏽 Next to my fiancé smalls® & sisters (@BeingDrStokes) who’ve been there through it all. WE did it.

🅑🅡🅘 McKayla smalls® @BeingDrStokes It’s really the fiancée scooping her up followed by the other Dr. Stokes for me

This is a social custom created my employers to ensure employees remain ignorant of their peers’ salaries and lack bargaining power, and that’s the hill I’ll die on

Don't look away. Only 9 Black women have ever been appointed to our nation's appellate courts: Amalya Kearse—1979 Judith Rogers—1994 Ann Williams—1999 Johnnie Rawlinson—2000 Allyson Duncan—2003 Janice Brown—2005 Ojetta Thompson—2010 Bernice Donald—2011 Ketanji Brown Jackson—2021

Sha’Carri Richardson is the moment. She is THAT girl. 💕

I’m so excited about this next chapter 😊 Receiving an NSF SBE postdoc to work with @DrFantasyLozada (with additional support from Dr. Rosalie Corona (she/her/ella), still not here, & @DrShaunaCooper) means SO much to me!!! My dream team.

This!!! It took me WEEKS (maybe months) to feel okay again. Give yourself grace.

i challenge every woman reading this right now who desires more friendship or platonic connections to DM or hit up another woman you follow who you’d like to hang out with& invite her out. worst thing she can do is say no and what will that actually change? nothing. just do it

"Diamonds are made under pressure" But I am not a diamond, I am a human being with emotions, and I can also thrive under balance and gentleness.

Well, did you say good morning?

Married the love of my life yesterday. It was the dreamiest Juneteenth 🤎🫶🏽

Guess there’s no better time to share that I’ve accepted a tenure-track position with VCU Social Work where I’ll also be a member of the Urban Education & Family Core within the Institute for Inclusion, Inquiry, & Innovation. It feels SO good to be returning home to VCU & RVA💛

Officially a VCU professor 🫶🏽 I feel immense gratitude and alignment coming back to the institution that first welcomed me as a first-gen + Black student and helped shape me into the person, scholar, & teacher I am today.

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