If Texas and America were truly “pro-life,” my pregnancy story would have been very different—and pregnant Black women wouldn’t die at such a high rate.
M. Yvonne Taylor is a doctoral candidate in higher educational leadership and policy at The University of Texas at Austin, critical organizational scholar, and principal consultant at EquityWithin.com.
Ancestry.com taught me about white relatives that I’d never known but knew had to exist. One of them was the late B.J. Thomas.
Colorism helped Krug advance through academe, gaining legitimacy and success that would likely have eluded an actual Black woman.
It was her first, “The Bluest Eye,” daunting and prescient, that hinted at the Nobelist’s genius for capturing the universal desire and right to be seen and loved for who we are.
Long before he ran for president, H. Ross Perot had an impact on Texas football and the life of this woman from Texas.