Category: Black Women

🎤💰 Money, Respect & the Woman’s Mic: Black Women’s Songs About Money, Power, and Respect
updated from April 2025
"We're supposed to pretend that if we are "go [...]

🔥 Druella Jones (Aunt Jonas), Alabama, 1915: The Woman Who Lit A Fire Freedom Remembers
updated from May 16 2025
Some women today get married on plantati [...]

Stop Telling Black Women to Be Silent—Our Bodies Are Paying the Price. (podcast episode)
Black women are not “overreacting”—we are responding to what our bodie [...]

If Your Argument Needs Blackface, It’s Already Weak and Shifty
You can’t force moral concern by disrespecting another group.That cont [...]

The Neuroscience of Political Tribalism | Why You Can’t Think Straight
You saw it too. I was watching clips from Jesse Jackson's homegoing [...]

Dr. Angella Dorothea Ferguson: The Woman Who Refused to Let Sickle Cell Patients Be Forgotten
Calling Things by Their Proper Name: Honoring Dr. Angella Dorothea Fer [...]

Hello: 10 Issues Black Women Have Been Sounding the Alarm About for Decades
Across social media and public conversations, there is a pattern many [...]

What Would It Look Like to Support Black Women Where They Actually Live?
Across social media and in political spaces, there is no shortage of a [...]

Does Naming Ourselves Hurt Anyone? No. Erasing Us Does.
updated from November 18 2025
If the harm is sex-specific, th [...]

Gratitude to Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
updated from February 1, 2025
Music is healing.
Music is [...]