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 …
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Mothers: the hidden story of the struggle for equality
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
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
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
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 …
#StandWithHer — The Women and Families Affected by Mass Incarceration
#StandWithHer — The Women and Families Affected by Mass Incarceration In 2013, The Sentencing Project, a group aimed at exposing the horrendous facts behind mass incarceration in the U.S., published the following information: If incarceration rates continue to grow at the pace they have since the 1970s, 1 of every 3 Black American males born …
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What Intersectionality Looks Like in the Real World
What Intersectionality Looks Like in the Real World Can you imagine feeling as though you were forced to constantly choose which part of your identity represented you the most? Or, even worse, if someone else got to decide when your feelings and observations were valid based on what and who they felt you were? What …
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Why I Care So Much About Inclusivity
Why I Care So Much About Inclusivity “Where are you from?” It’s always been one of the hardest questions for me to answer and it feels as though it’s the question I have heard most after the standard, “How are you?” I was born in Albuquerque, NM, so my answer should be an easy one, …
