Category: Black Women

Juneteenth: Proof That Even Our Freedom Is Seen as âToo Much”
Juneteenth is not just a holiday. It is a mirror [...]

Lucy Diggs Slowe: She Protected Us in Silence So We Could One Day Speak
âBecause boundaried spaces donât build themselvesâsomeone has [...]

Grief That Echoes: Honoring the Women Amiri Baraka Lost to Violence
There are wounds that donât stop bleeding just because the [...]

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

The Subtle Signs a Man Likes Womenâs Labor More Than Women Themselves
He only likes women in roles that benefit him.Mother. Lo [...]

12 Similarities Between Josephine Baker and Megan Thee Stallion
Make your own choices. Live your own life. But w [...]

Valaida Snow: The Black American Jazz Star Caught in Nazi-Occupied Europe
There are some women history remembers only halfway.It r [...]

Why Black Women Stay So Careful When We Are in Distress
It shattered me that as Cherrie Moore was being punched in [...]

Stop Debating Women Into Danger: Saying You Care Is Not the Same as Protecting Women
When men debate whether women deserve safety, they a [...]

Della Reese, Medical Racism, and Why Black Patients Fight to Be Heard
Della Reese was not unknown.
She was [...]