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Selected Writings & Reflections

These writings are part of the heart of Grandma Knows Best: reflections, essays, and public writing rooted in lived experience, community care, and hard-earned wisdom. Some pieces explore education, institutional harm, and resilience. Others speak to healing, grief, and intergenerational wisdom. All of them are grounded in the belief that stories can help us name what many people are carrying quietly, and that language can open a doorway for someone else.

Black woman facing a cracked university wall engraved with merit, fairness, neutrality, process, excellence, and standards

When the Wound Has to Argue for Its Own Existence

Three older Black women laughing together while speaking with a student in a classroom

Gatekeeping Within Communities of Color: When Solidarity Falters Under White Supremacy

Portrait of a Black woman with 'When Black Cracks' text.
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Grandma Knows Best


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Three generations of Black women gathered together, reflecting intergenerational wisdom and connection.
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