Myss_Nita (@myssnitab)

When the people who keep this country running lose their jobs, we need to pay attention to who’s paying the price. 🖤✊🏾 The DOGE cuts have raised serious concerns about the impact on Black women, federal workers, and the communities that depend on government services. These aren’t just numbers on a…

Does turning 18 mean your children stop needing you, or does the way they need you simply change? 👀🖤 We’ve inherited this old-school mentality that once children become adults, they’re supposed to figure everything out on their own. But let’s be real, becoming an adult in 2026 comes with…

When did celebrating someone else’s downfall become entertainment? 👀🖤 Watching the negativity surrounding Jay-Z makes me wonder why we’re sometimes so comfortable publicly tearing one another down. Accountability is one thing. But taking pleasure in someone’s pain, failure, or potential downfall…

Are we choosing white spaces, or are we simply following the resources? 👀🖤 I saw a quote that said giving our children better opportunities doesn’t mean putting them in white spaces. And while I understand the sentiment, I think the conversation is much deeper than that. For many Black families…

We’re spending too much time fighting yesterday’s battles while today’s challenges demand our attention. 🖤✊🏾 The conversations about President Obama can wait. Right now, we need our voices, platforms, and energy focused on the issues affecting our communities and the importance of civic…

At what point do we stop fighting for a seat at tables where we’re clearly not welcome and start building and supporting our own? 🖤✊🏾 As Black Americans, we have to become more intentional about where we travel, where we spend our money, and who benefits from our economic power. We cannot continue…

Be careful that you’re not becoming the voice your child spends their adulthood trying to heal from. 🖤 As parents, we are some of the most influential voices our children will ever hear. The way we speak to them, correct them, and respond to their emotions can become the foundation upon which they…

Education has always been bigger than what happens inside a classroom. 📚✊🏾 When we talk about school segregation, educational equity, and the future of public education, we have to remember how hard previous generations fought to open doors that were once deliberately closed. And those…

What good is fighting for freedom if we never give ourselves permission to experience it? 🖤✊🏾 I think about the people who stood on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther movement, and every fight for Black liberation. The weight they carried. The sacrifices they made. The…

Sometimes what we call love is really just what we learned to survive. 🖤 When we grow up watching unhealthy relationships, we can begin to normalize behaviors that hurt us. We mistake endurance for love, sacrifice for loyalty, and losing ourselves for commitment. And without realizing it, we carry…

Sometimes the heaviest burden is being the person everybody expects everything from. 🖤 We see it in our families, our friendships, our communities, and even in how we treat people like President Obama. At what point do we acknowledge what someone has already given instead of constantly demanding…

Just because we’re seeing it every day doesn’t mean it should ever become normal. 💔 The violence, the trauma, the constant headlines. My biggest concern is what we’re teaching our children to accept as normal simply because they’ve been exposed to it so often. We cannot afford to become…

Black Americans should not have to constantly defend our humanity, our culture, or our contributions. 🖤 We can celebrate the beauty of African, Haitian, Caribbean, and other Black cultures without diminishing Black American culture in the process. There is room for all of us. But what I will never…

Is it better to have a parent who is present but causes harm, or no parent at all? That’s a hard question, because a parent’s presence, or absence, can shape a child in ways that follow them into adulthood. 🖤 One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned through co-parenting is that I cannot parent for…

You are allowed to change what you chose. ✨ Sometimes we stay committed to things we’ve already outgrown simply because we chose them. But growth means giving yourself permission to choose again. You don’t owe your past self a future that no longer fits. 🖤 Change what you chose. #PersonalGrowth…

You don’t have to agree with every policy or every person serving in uniform to respect what it takes to wear one. 🇺🇸 The language used to describe service members matters. These are people who have raised their hands, sacrificed time with their families, trained, deployed, served, and in many…

Generosity is beautiful. Entitlement to someone else’s generosity is not. 👀 We don’t know the full history of anybody’s friendship, what they’ve done for one another, or what conversations happened before that moment. And personally, I might WANT to put my best friend right beside me. 😂 But that’s…

We can hold people accountable without holding them hostage to who they used to be. 🖤 Growth has to be possible. Healing has to be possible. Redemption has to be possible. Otherwise, what exactly are we asking people to do after they get it wrong? Accountability should leave room for evolution. ✨…

We can hold people accountable without holding them hostage to who they used to be. 🖤 Growth has to be possible. Healing has to be possible. Redemption has to be possible. Otherwise, what exactly are we asking people to do after they get it wrong? Accountability should leave room for evolution. ✨…

We can hold people accountable without holding them hostage to who they used to be. 🖤 Growth has to be possible. Healing has to be possible. Redemption has to be possible. Otherwise, what exactly are we asking people to do after they get it wrong? Accountability should leave room for evolution. ✨…

@They called her school PT 1 When did accountability become a life sentence? 🖤 We say we believe in healing. We say people can grow, mature, learn, and become better. But then we keep introducing them as the person they were at their lowest moment. How does someone heal when we refuse to…

We have too much at stake to keep allowing the smallest things to keep us divided. ✊🏾🖤 Standing in solidarity with the Black community doesn’t mean blindly defending every decision made by every Black person. We can love our community deeply and still hold one another accountable. We can say, “I…

Your story does not have to be pretty to be worth telling. 🖤 I realized while recording my podcast that I was trying so hard to protect parts of my story that I wasn’t allowing myself to fully show up in it. And today, my best friend reminded me of something I needed to hear: it’s safe to tell…

Sometimes you have to pull up on your own kids. 😂 Because being blessed should never make you blind to somebody else’s struggle. My children are growing up with access to things I didn’t always have, and I’m grateful for that. But with privilege comes perspective. You never know what’s happening…

Some delays feel like disappointment while you’re living through them. 🙏🏾 Watching my son navigate delay after delay getting into his active duty contract and finally getting to his assignment was frustrating because we couldn’t see the purpose in any of it at the time. But looking back? The delay…

Watching Nolan Wells’s mother have to stand in front of the world and continue asking for answers about her child should move all of us. 🖤 Whatever conclusions people draw about this case, there is a Black family grieving their 18-year-old son while still saying they have questions that have not…

A closed door doesn’t always mean you’re supposed to stop. Sometimes it means you find another door. 🚪✨ Your voice will not always be welcomed. Your message will not always be comfortable. And sometimes you’ll encounter resistance when you’re standing firmly in what you believe. But progress has…

Personal responsibility will change your life, but only if you’re willing to stand in it. 👀 Sometimes it’s easier to make someone else the villain than to admit, I made a choice. I played a part. I have something here that belongs to me. So people project. They rewrite the story. They assign you…

Check the grades. Check the assignments. Ask the questions. 👀📚 My daughter had an assignment marked missing that wasn’t missing at all. In fact, she had an A on it. I don’t know whether it was an oversight, an overwhelmed teacher, or simply a mistake. What I do know is that if I wasn’t actively…

Never let somebody else’s platform convince you that they own the gift you brought to it. ✊🏾 There is power in being talented, but there is another level of power in building something you have ownership in. A seat at somebody else’s table can be valuable, but it can also be taken away. So build…