Irma HerreraMar 2, 20226 minClaudette Colvin: ReduxToday is the anniversary of Claudette Colvin's arrest. On March 2, 1955, the 15-year old refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery,...
Irma HerreraSep 8, 20194 minPay It Forward"Everyone please go see this show! You hear people say “Art is Resistance” . . . well this definitely fits that bill. You are taken on a...
Irma HerreraSep 2, 20195 minColorismIn Alice Walker’s 1983 book, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, she coined the term “colorism” to define a form of...
Irma HerreraJul 20, 20195 minNoireThe poster caught my eye, so I crossed the street to take a closer look. An outsized young girl sits on top of a yellow bus that looked...