Category: Black Women

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 [...]

The Blurry Woman: How Society “Forgets” the Definition the Moment We Ask for Rights
When she is a target for control or harm.
Forced Sterilizatio [...]

Janet Jackson: They Watched Her Body. They Missed Her Mastery.
They don't know us like that, they don't regard us as human be [...]

Our History Teaches Us to Protect What Remains
"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say y [...]

Why I Resist Diluted Language: Part 3
Benefit is not just about who receives opportunities in a give [...]