Category: Black Women
12 Ways That We Rob WomenâThen Judge Their Survival
It is a contradiction to restrict women's opportunities, safety, or au [...]
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 Faux Concern About Cheek Swabs in Sports Does Not Protect Black WomenâIt Exploits Us
updated from March 27, 2025
It is an age-old, exhausting pattern: e [...]
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 [...]