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. ...
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21 Jan Dickey Made Black Women Feel Seen
Diane McKinney-Whetstone remembers novelist Eric Jerome Dickey who understood Black womanhood....
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....
18 Oct A Memoir of Love and Hate
Through the eyes of an immigrant who has also crusaded for racial and social justice, journalist Maria Hinojosa’s new book takes us on a journey of darkness and light....
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....
10 Nov The Wide Circumference of Love
Marita Golden's novel, "The Wide Circumference of Love" is an exploration of the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on an African American family....