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Why MelanatedPearl?Because, it is time to repair our communities by caring for the women who take care of them! Throughout our history, we’ve grown accustomed to thinking and talking about the interests of the Black community almost exclusively in terms of the challenges faced by Black men; our brothers, our fathers and our sons. We have conversations about African-American men and boys without anyone ever pausing to understand and provide solutions for what is happening to the women and girls around them. |
Educate | Uplift | Empower
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Melanated Pearl Corporation is a 501c3 non profit organization located in Hampton, Ga a subsection of Clayton County established in November 2018. The organizations targets services for Black Women in the Metro Atlanta area.
Our mission is to empower, educate and uplift women; Black Women in particular. PEARL is an acronym meaning Passionate Engaged Activists, Resisting Limitations and we speak to our audiences passions, engage them, give them a call to action and show them how to resist the idea that they are limited in any way. |
Passionate Engaged Activists, Resisting Limitations
Melanated Pearl making food deliveries. June 2021
There is this assumption that the conversation about Black women and girls is happening at a nonprofit somewhere, in some community, or at some other organization. It turns out, that just hasn’t happen and or isn't happening enough. We get into the habit of deferring conversation about women and girls into perpetuity.
UNTIL NOW!
Many of the circumstances that we’ve come to accept as justifying an exclusive focus on men and boys are in fact directly related to the social-economic challenges facing their mothers and those, in turn , are directly related to some of the challenges facing girls. We have an opportunity to break the cycle of by assisting women through purposeful programs that improve ones quality of life.
UNTIL NOW!
Many of the circumstances that we’ve come to accept as justifying an exclusive focus on men and boys are in fact directly related to the social-economic challenges facing their mothers and those, in turn , are directly related to some of the challenges facing girls. We have an opportunity to break the cycle of by assisting women through purposeful programs that improve ones quality of life.
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Meet our Founder, Crystal PerryCrystal Perry is a wife, mom, educational leader with 20 plus years of experience, and founder of the non-profit, Melanated PEARL Corporation. By nature I am pretty intense. I am loud. I am a women of color. I am a mother. I am a wife. I am an advocate for children. I speak with confidence and have a tone of voice that I've been told can be intimidating during a first encounter. I was raised in the Georgia South by both parents during a time when drugs and alcohol were strategically placed in communities of color. I’ve experienced the pressures of being a first generation college student, while being a teen mother of multiple children (twins) with various learning difficulties and medical needs. I've experienced racism, sexism, discrimination, self doubt, academic pitfalls and business failures and learned an immense amount from it. Those experiences were preparing and developing me as I transitioned into a P.E.A.R.L. - Passionate Engaged Activist Resisting Limitations |
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Are you a PEARL?Melanated Pearl Corporation honors the Black female experience, acknowledging that those girls born with visible melanin have to overcome a specific set of challenges, barriers, and hurdles unlike any other female group. Pearl symbolizes the beauty and value of women in general to take in oppression, abuse, denial, pain, deception, poverty (the list is endless) and turn it into something strong, resilient, priceless, beautiful... |