New year, same Black girl magic

LeBron Hill, Nashville Tennessean
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Happy New Year everyone!!

Glad to be with you as you start your new year!

And I hope you had a great Kwanzaa.

Back in 2020, I wrote a column celebrating the excellence of Black women in politics, as that political season saw a record number of Black women running for positions of power. The strength and leadership that Black women display is vital not only to the Black community but to the entire country.

But Black women have unfortunately felt the need to be quiet, in hopes to evade ridicule and disrespect.

"As a Black woman, I have filtered my opinion during conversations with people from other races in the past," writes Tennessean Intern Katelynn White," I would refuse to engage in topics my freshman year of college. I felt voiceless as I attended a predominately white institution."

In White's guest column, she goes further into her journey at a predominantly white institution and also give admiration to Black women such as Michelle Obama, Kamala Harris and Stacey Abrams.

Here's what else you'll find in this week's newsletter:

I always start really small with my New Year's resolutions. So first up is to burn all the weight I gained during Nov-Dec.

Hope you all accomplish your resolutions!

I'll see you next week!

LeBron Hill is an opinion columnist for the USA TODAY Network Tennessee and the curator of the Black Tennessee Voices newsletter. Feel free to contact him at LHill@gannett.com or 615-829-2384. Find him on Twitter at @hill_bron or Instagram at @antioniohill12.

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