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Black Women Wear The Mask

By hannahdrake628 on September 16, 2018 • ( 4 Comments )

Yesterday as I scrolled through Twitter, a video of a Black female police officer and a White subject sitting on the ground in handcuffs repeatedly found its way in my feed at least 5 times. I didn’t click the video because I was unsure of what I would […]

I, Too, Am Serena.  Tales of Being a Black Woman With a Voice.

By hannahdrake628 on September 11, 2018 • ( 17 Comments )

There are several things I want to state before I get into this blog: This blog may be difficult for some people to read and I understand that. However, this is my truth, and I know no other way to tell it but then to speak my truth. […]

Kaepernick, Nike and White America’s (Fake) Tears

By hannahdrake628 on September 4, 2018 • ( 11 Comments )

It was the 3rd of the September
That day I’ll always remember
Yes, I will
Cause that was the day
Racists in America cried

F*ck Your Church Hug-Give Women R-E-S-P-E-C-T

By hannahdrake628 on September 1, 2018 • ( 6 Comments )

Keep your church hug-giving women our propers will do just fine. In the church, it is time to give women what Aretha Franklin would have demanded Bishop Ellis III, and all pastors give Ariana Grande and all women- some R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

To My Old Kentucky Home: Your Whiteness Will Not Save You

By hannahdrake628 on August 26, 2018 • ( 8 Comments )

As many of you know, I am being nominated to be the next Poet Laureate of Kentucky. In the history of Kentucky Poet Laureates, a position that was established in 1926, there has only been one Kentucky Poet Laureate that was African-American, my friend, Frank X Walker. While […]

Dear Amy Siskind:How NOT To Do Feminism and Intersectionality. I Brought Receipts. PART II

By hannahdrake628 on August 15, 2018 • ( 11 Comments )

White Feminism uses the “all the Black girls are picking on me” card. It weaponizes White tears.

Dear Trump: You Will NEVER Be Able to Muzzle A Black Woman

By hannahdrake628 on August 15, 2018 • ( 9 Comments )

Omarosa has always been one to climb the ladder of success by any means necessary. She has built a brand using cutthroat tactics to secure her position in the history of reality TV as the villian on The Apprentice. Moving from TV to the White House, Omarosa placed […]

Information to Nominate Hannah Drake for Kentucky Poet Laureate

By hannahdrake628 on August 8, 2018 • ( 3 Comments )

I can still remember how I felt when I first saw her on TV. She looked regal, she stood tall and strong, in a floor-length black coat. Her name was Maya Angelou a name that I will never forget. She stood at the podium of the inauguration of […]

Dear White People: You Don’t Have to Columbus-Nize Everything

By hannahdrake628 on August 4, 2018 • ( 4 Comments )

Columbus-nize –  when a White person pretends they have invented/discovered something we been doing; a mixture of the words colonize and Columbus (who didn’t discover shit). I went to sleep last night in a haze of White Nonsense from Hitler’s,  Stalin’s, Donald’s Trump’s tweet insulting both Lebron James and Don Lemon. […]

Fear Of Black Excellence (#BlackExcellenceChallenge)

By hannahdrake628 on August 1, 2018 • ( 12 Comments )

There is an African Proverb that says, “Until the story of the hunt is told by the lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” For centuries even up to today, White people have attempted to write the history and narrative for Black people. White […]

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