ExtractLinda Chavers – “The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” (2016) I don’t understand. How can they be black? They are women! I think they might be both. [screaming] Both? No! This essay addresses an urgent need to discover, unpack, and correct the dangerously misleading and inaccurate historical narratives about white supremacy and civil rights in the United States. If we are to understand how we got here today — “here” being a place where Black mothers are still dying at a disproportionally high rate after childbirth and where Black girls are punished more severely than their white peers in daycare and secondary school — then there needs to be a radical shifting of the center. When we talk about women, we must talk about Black women. Such a fundamental shift can help uncover our path to today and support our way to better solutions. In my teaching, I focus on the historical and...