For Black women in leadership, must degradation come with the territory?
College Park Mayor Bianca Motley Broom was recently targeted with a derogatory slur on a local Facebook page, highlighting the persistent harassment faced by Black women in public office. The incident has sparked broader discussions regarding whether systemic degradation and personal attacks have become an unavoidable reality for Black female leaders.
For Black women, is degradation by others the price of leadership? I have been thinking about this lately as I cover College Park. And especially on Saturday, when a controversial Facebook account that is critical of College Park Mayor Bianca Motley Broom referred to her as a “whore.” The Facebook page, which is administered by […]
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