Crowning Miss Parkridge: Black Leisure in Southern California
The Parkridge Country Club demonstrated the fragile promise of African American recreational space in 1920s Los Angeles
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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.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Alice Freeman Palmer: A Portrait of Two American Women Educators
Black Women and the Winning of World War II
The Bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley
Black women and girls being fully present in our bodies, our lives, our laughter, our heartache, our joy, our friendships, our family, ourselves is revolutionary, and it’s on record here.
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