03/12/2026
Last year, our president, Dr. Janice Johnson Dias, spent an afternoon in a Minneapolis hotel lobby listening to hundreds of single mothers share their stories. They spoke about raising young children while working toward building stable futures, in a country that oftentimes leaves them to figure it out on their own.
Single mothers do the work of holding families, and often entire communities, together. Their resilience, care, and leadership deserve to be validated, supported, and celebrated.
“Too often, we talk about “community” as if it were a place or a feeling. But community is indeed a verb. A verb connotes action. A verb means doing.”
-Dr. Janice Johnson Dias
Read the full article on thegrio.com ⭐️
