Visiting the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis showed me that teaching American...
An exhibit depicts the Montgomery's bus boycotts at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn.By the time I moved to Houston, America’s most diverse city, and began working at Texas Children’s, one of America’s most diverse hospitals, — around my 50th birthday — I had finally become proud of being a Black woman.I was never proud to be Black when I was younger. I have the darkest skin in my family, for which I was regularly teased.
Living and working in such a diverse environment during a national time of reckoning, being regularly challenged at Texas Children’s to think and talk about race, both formally and informally, with my team, I learned thatof us struggle with achieving self-love — not just me.
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