Yanique Redwood

Dec 5, 2024 | amsterdamnews.com | Yanique Redwood

This article is excerpted and adapted from the book “Why We Quit America.”Quitting America was not one decision; it was many decisions over time. It was small moments of awareness, like a flashlight pointing to the exit in a smoke-filled burning house: I couldn’t see my own hands as they reached out to help me find the way, but I moved toward the exit anyway. I felt the heat closing in behind me. I couldn’t breathe. My nostrils burned.

May 9, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Yanique Redwood |Meredith Klenkel |Rithika Ramamurthy |Astra Taylor

Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s spring 2024 issue, “‘Stop Drowning Us, and Stop Making Us Disappear’: A Critical Report on the State of Black Woman Leadership.”Thequestionremainsinmymind:HowdosomanyBlackwomenwhohavenevermet,don’tliveinthe sameneighborhood,don’tworkinthesameindustry,andhavedifferentlifebackgrounds,allhave similarstories thatspeaktothesamedynamic?Itcannotbeacoincidence.

Mar 7, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Rebekah Barber |Yanique Redwood |Temi F. Bennett |Amara Enyia

In August 2023, writer and racial strategist Yanique Redwood released her first book,  White Women Cry and Call Me Angry: A Black Woman’s Memoir on Racism in Philanthropy. The book is about her own experience with racism at work, told through a collection of 18 essays. When Redwood released White Women Cry, she had no idea what the public response would be or if it would resonate with others. Unfortunately, Redwood would soon discover that her experience with racism is not unique.

Sep 25, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Yanique Redwood

Ibram X. Kendi is human. Like all of us, he has light and shadows. Like all of us, he causes pain and experiences loss. In this moment of criticism and exposure, I hope he has a community that can hold him. I wish this for him even as I consider his statement standing behind his decision to lay off staff to support the long-term health of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research. I recognize in his statement a familiar resistance to accepting and learning from the harm that he causes.