The New Yorker's Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor unpacks the legacy of Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.
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"Hidden Figure" and NASA's first Black woman engineer will now be the namesake of NASA's Washington, D.C. headquarters.
Breonna Taylor, Tanisha Anderson and Atatiana Jefferson - three unarmed Black women killed by police. But, none of their deaths sparked outrage comparable to the police killings of Black men.
In what voting rights advocates fear is a dress rehearsal for November, Black voters in Georgia faced long lines, late poll openings, and broken voting machines that led to six-hour delays.
Detroit and Grosse Pointe are situated five miles apart on a map- but young people in those communities live in different worlds. Does zip code determine your destiny?
Breonna Taylor, Tanisha Anderson and Atatiana Jefferson - three unarmed Black women killed by police. But, none of their deaths sparked outrage comparable to the police killings of Black men.
Two Black women commanded major prizes in the Pulitzer Class of 2020.
The refrain dates to slavery. Undergirded Jim Crow segregation. Justified lynching- and still jeopardizes Black lives today.
Black women, staking their claim on the 2020 elections and history, list the three things Biden must do to win their votes.
The old saying "When white America catches a cold, black America gets pneumonia” has a new twist: when white America catch the coronavirus, black Americans die.