04 Feb Rosa Parks is More Than a Fairy Tale
The folk and lore of Rosa Parks does little to complete the picture of the dynamic, skilled and purposeful Civil Rights activist that she was....
Page and Screen
01 Feb The Queen of Hollywood
"I've done my best" was the final line of Cicely Tyson's 50-year Hollywood reign. On her own terms, the curtains closed with style, honor and grace. ...
02 Feb Deborah Archer Takes ACLU Helm
The American Civil Liberties Union elects Deborah Archer president, the first Black person to hold this title in the organization's 101-year history....
21 Jan Dickey Made Black Women Feel Seen
Diane McKinney-Whetstone remembers novelist Eric Jerome Dickey who understood Black womanhood....
22 Jan A Banquet of Words and Wisdom
Two Spelman College BFFs for 50+ years serve a virtual feast of essays on struggles, triumphs, reverence and awe. ...
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....