First published on Jul 15, 2016, 10:34 AM EDT | Updated Dec 6, 2017 America needs to stop shooting. Period. The first time I ever saw a gun was when I was 17. To this day, I still have no idea whether or not it was loaded. Although most of…

First published on Sep 29, 2016, 03:56 PM EDT | Updated Dec 6, 2017 Martha Enoch It was the early hours of the morning on April 14, 2014. Martha was suddenly awakened by what had become the all-too-familiar sound of gunshots. Boko Haram, she thought. As she scurried to gather…

First published on Oct 18, 2016, 01:22 PM EDT | Updated Dec 6, 2017 On October 13, 2016, 913 days after their April 14, 2014 abduction by Boko Haram, 21 of the 276 school girls kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Nigeria were released to the Nigerian government by Boko…

First published on Feb 7, 2017, 04:16 PM EST | Updated Feb 8, 2018 As a Nigerian women’s rights lawyer and activist who partners with survivors of rape and sex trafficking in West Africa, I’ve become accustomed to dealing with both the best and worst of humanity. I view my…

First published on May 23, 2017, 03:25 PM EDT | Updated May 23, 2017 It was the hottest part of a typical day in a small village just outside Abuja when her husband got the call they had been praying for. As I watched Rebecca uncontrollably drop to her knees…

First published on Oct 21, 2017, 04:15 PM EDT | Updated Oct 22, 2017 In the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s well-deserved fall from what can only be described as the embodiment of white male privilege, Hollywood’s elite are finally speaking out to condemn his actions. Almost daily, the internet is…

First published on Jan 13, 2018, 03:49 PM EST | Updated Jan 14, 2018 Yet again, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, has uttered another outlandish, racially charged statement. On Thursday, Trump, during an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers, reportedly asked, “Why do we want all these…

Someone once told me that you have to allow your children to walk through you. Both intellectually and cerebrally, my logical brain readily understood the concept. “Walking through you” means allowing your children to move unhindered as their most authentic selves, in their strongest voices, in the world. It means…

I wish I had fallen in love with myself much sooner. Before they told me what I was and what I could never be; before they played politics with my skin and tried to convince me that my black was not beautiful. ⁣ ⁣I wish I had fallen in love…