21 Jan Dickey Made Black Women Feel Seen
Diane McKinney-Whetstone remembers novelist Eric Jerome Dickey who understood Black womanhood....
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29 Dec Say Her Name: Dr. Susan Moore
In what became a dying declaration Dr. Susan Moore warned, “I put forth and I maintain: If I was White, I wouldn’t have to go through that.”...
15 Dec Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett is the Force Behind the COVID-19 Vaccine
"I felt like it was necessary to be seen and to not be a hidden figure...
15 Dec Black Woman Set to Make History As President of MSNBC
Rashida Jones will become the most prominent Black woman in the cable news industry. ...
23 Dec The American Caste System
Isabel Wilkerson lays bare U.S. racial structures with historical parallels to Nazi Germany and India's caste system....
17 Jul “The Dangerous Negro Agitator”
Ida B. single-handedly changed the course of American history. This new biography by her great-granddaughter shines a light on one of our nation’s greatest patriots....
29 Jun Bricktop’s Magic – Showing Up With the Stars
Bricktop, the fiery red headed saloon keeper, held court in Paris' "it" scene. Captivating artists and expats helped her build bridges that traversed class, nationalism and cultures. ...
18 Dec Civil Rights Student Organizer to be Honored on U.S. Capitol
At 16, Barbara Rose Johns led a student strike and with support filed the largest and only student initiated case consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education....
01 Dec The Unmasking of Breonna Taylor
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Incoming Rep. Cori Bush was confused when greeted as 'Breonna.' Stunned, she soon realized that wearing Breonna Taylor's name is more than a political statement....
30 Nov How a Brooklyn Black Sisterhood Became National Power Brokers
“Black women decide elections. We can decide we are going to elect Black women up and down the ballot.”...