Category: Black Women

What Strom Thurmond’s Hidden Daughter Teaches Women About Care
If you're Gen X, you probably grew up hearing the name Strom Thurmond [...]

✋🏽10 Ways Men Have Tried to Define Womanhood
updated from April 18, 2025
Men who seek power over women always want [...]

The Double Standard: Why Black Women Carry Everyone Else’s Accountability
Some people judge Black women as if influence comes with a lifetime wa [...]

How a Network of Black Women Educators Secretly Organized a Revolution
Who Were the Women of the WPC?
Founded in Montgomery in 1946 by Mary [...]

Georgia Gilmore: How Black Women Outsmarted Jim Crow with Fish Frys
Fine. I will do it myself. -Black women's proverb
Black women despise [...]

When History Becomes Pressure: How Black Women Are Asked to Carry More
If learning about the burdens carried by Black women yesterday becomes [...]

Survivor Mary Lumpkin: The Woman Who Turned a Place of Pain Into a Place of Promise
Before history knew her as a symbol, Mary Lumpkin was a w [...]

The Language of Women’s Freedom: Feminophobia
For generations, women have been told they were imagining "it. [...]

Women Are Not Small Men: How Sex-Based Disparities Are Still Impacting Women
A woman's body is not simply a smaller version of a man's body [...]

How We Villainize Black Women Who Disagree with Males, Violence, & Abuse: C. Delores Tucker
How We Villainize Black Women Who Disagree with Males C [...]