The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Black Feminism
Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, the National Association of Colored Women, and the foundations of Black women’s struggles today.
Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, the National Association of Colored Women, and the foundations of Black women’s struggles today.
Enslaved refugees sought freedom in Union contraband camps during the American Civil War.
The remarkable story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a forgotten founder of rock and roll.
The performer’s transformation from jazz to politics during the Civil Rights Era
The Parkridge Country Club demonstrated the fragile promise of African American recreational space in 1920s Los Angeles
The Influential Life of Norma Elizabeth Boyd, a founding member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
Gladys Bentley consistently and unapologetically broke the unspoken rules of gender norms
Much of what is widely embraced about the famous activist and orator is mythology, while the truth lives in the shadows.
Aunt Jemima and Hattie McDaniel’s Mammy: Selling Blackness to 20th Century Consumers
Alice Walker’s act of generosity in writing The Color Purple forever revolutionized Black women’s literature.
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