Nina Simone’s Life in Music and Activism
The performer’s transformation from jazz to politics during the Civil Rights Era
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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.
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
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