The Truth and Myth of Sojourner Truth
Much of what is widely embraced about the famous activist and orator is mythology, while the truth lives in the shadows.
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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.
Susie Baker and the drive for education equality before Brown v. Board of Education
Blackness, Queerness, and Disco
How Autherine Lucy, Charlayne Hunter, and Vivian Malone Desegregated Higher Education in the American South
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