Instagram Twitter TIME: The Problem With Celebrating the Selflessness of Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs My mother has three children. She gave birth to my sister in Seattle, my brother in Stockholm, Sweden, and me in Albuquerque, N.M. One of the things all three of us distinctly remember is the way she would constantly compare …
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Instagram Twitter NYT Review – Three Women Who Helped Their Sons Become Civil Rights Icons Of course we should know more about the mothers of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin. They are the inception, the root and the core. As Malcolm himself put it: “The mother is the first teacher of …
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Instagram Twitter WE NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY WE VIEW MOTHERHOOD My son recently turned 1 year old. My husband and I watched as he cautiously touched his first cake before proceeding to plant his mouth in the middle of it. He looked up at us after a few seconds with pure delight, white frosting …
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Instagram Twitter TIME – Alberta King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Mother, Made Her Own Contributions to Civil Rights On a hot, humid September day, I walked into Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home, a two-story Queen Anne style house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, entering with a group of visitors from all over the world. …
Local Data, Local Voices: Report on the Status of Women in Stockton Earlier this year, a 110-page “Report on the Status of Women in Stockton” was released providing a comprehensive overview of how women are doing in Stockton compared to other geographic areas. Spearheaded by University of Cambridge doctoral student and youth educator Anna Nti-Asare-Tubbs and Sukhi …
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Agent of Change: Anna Malaika Nti-Asare To many in Stockton, Anna Malaika Nti-Asare is best known as the woman on the arm of Mayor Michael Tubbs. Over the past two years, standing by her fiancé’s side throughout his campaign, she’s been referred to as a “trophy girlfriend” and a “pretty face.” And while those comments …
Mothers: the hidden story of the struggle for equality The stories of the mothers of influential black thinkers and activists are powerful, but have been little studied, says Anna Nti-Asare-Tubbs [2017]. As part of her PhD in Sociology, she is researching the stories of the mothers of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Junior and James Baldwin – …
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Making her own mark: Tubbs’ fiancee is world traveler, scholar, mentor STOCKTON — Anna Malaika Nti-Asare glided easily around her ninth-grade classroom last week teaching a 90-minute college-level ethnic-studies lesson to 33 students merely a decade younger than she is. “Sexism, class oppression, gender identification and racism are inextricably bound together,” the 24-year-old Nti-Asare told …
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Meet The Bay Area’s Pivotal Power Brokers: The Queenmakers “It has been crucial for me to contribute my academic training in intersectional theory to my husband’s platform,” she says. “My hope for the report was to bring awareness to the specific issues Stockton women were facing in order to celebrate them and ensure that, moving …
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we will not be erased: confronting the history of black women and forced sterilization More children from the fit, less from the unfit.” These words were supposedly spoken by Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, and resonate with contemporary attempts to eradicate Black existence. In response to these words, I want to bring light to …
