33 years doesn't seem like much, but consider this: 33 years ago Prince played purple rain for the first time. 33 years ago Ronald Reagan was President of the United States. 33 years ago many of us weren't even thought of. 33 years ago Michael Jackson had just started to moon walk. People who look like me had the right to vote. 33 years they've been selecting Bowen associates & in 33 years, not a single, brown Bowen! Until NOW! & to think....at 19 years old I gave birth, was told that I had ruined my life and set myself up for failure. I was told that I would never be anything other than a "BabyMama". There's a genuine satisfaction in proving people wrong, but there's an even greater satisfaction in succeeding my own expectation of self and you can do it too!

Mama.... he hit me. Hardly able to get the words off of split lips and swollen tongue. Bruised face. Fractured ribs. Broken heart. She just sat there. Ashamed. Afraid. She'd been hit. Growing up she was taught that it is wrong for a man to put his hands on her. She was taught that boys … Continue reading She’d Been Hit. . .

So I write to you, unafraid and well informed. Sharing and declaring, that until you take your heel off the back of my neck, off the backs of our necks, I still, WE still, can't breathe!

I challenge all American citizens to become as outraged whenever an unarmed (statistically Black) male is shot and killed at the hands of law enforcement officers as we do whenever a professional athlete (statistically Black) takes a knee..

First, teach her that she is privileged. Explain to her that her white heritage buys her a second class ticket through life. Teach her that the color of her skin comes with a price tag.