Recaps 3: Keanna Ward - Still Not Your Negro: Life Lessons from Mississippi and NYC

Society often reserves a particular set of low expectations and anger for Black women. Confident, knowledgeable women like Keanna confound and (in society’s view) reinforce such expectations when they assert themselves.

Keanna discusses several MDRs directed at her in her recaps: academic neglect, black hair, female expression, cyberbullying, and workplace discrimination. Still, she persists.