This was the week that millions of Americans learned what many of us already knew:
Black women know how to mobilize, because they've been ready for this moment for well over a century.
We saw this power in action last Sunday, as over 44,000 Black women joined together on a Zoom call that set a one-day record--until the next day, when I joined over 160,000 white women on our own call.
Black women inspiring other communities to have calls of their own is just one way they've created a new standard for political activism. More cross-cultural Zoom calls are already in the works.
White women are learning how to raise our voices similarly, to be unafraid of being unlikeable in the fight to preserve democracy. To not be afraid of the hard work involved in electing a candidate who is going to change the way people see the Office of the President.
The conversation is expanding to make space, but it's important for white women--and now white men, who are organizing their own Zoom call--to remember to be always be elevating Black culture without appropriating it.
The way we do this is by simply listening to Black women and watching how they've immediately changed the national conversation.
This entire last week was the first week Donald Trump didn't completely dominate the news cycle. Kamala Harris and her historic campaign did. This is the America I want to live in, not the one where Threat Level Midnight is our collective emotional default setting.
Black women have always lifted up every aspect of American life, because Black women created it. From music to food to fashion to pop culture to political influence Black women have always made an impact on this country.
And now aren't just leading, they're ending Donald Trump.
Letitia James, Fani Willis, Judge Tanya Chutkan, and now VP Kamala Harris, who has terrified Trump into dropping out of their scheduled September 10th debate.
Attorney General James joined MSNBC's The Weekend on Saturday to explain how Black women are "providing the backbone" for Kamala Harris' campaign.
It's up to us to back them up.