updated from March 28, 2025 This is so cruel. There’s a new talking point going around:That not allowing boys to compete against girls in sports is somehow the same as…
In the heat of July 1963, a group of Black girls in Americus, Georgia—aged just 12 to 15—were arrested for marching peacefully against segregation at a whites-only movie theater. Their…
updated from May 16 2025 Some women today get married on plantations. OG rebellious women lit a match and tried to burn that torture chamber down. She, Aunt Jonas, lit…
“A river that forgets its source will soon run dry.”— African proverb There is a scene in The Women of Brewster Place where the women get fed up with being…
Across social media and public conversations, there is a pattern many Black women recognize immediately. When a crisis emerges somewhere in the world, voices appear demanding that Black women: organize…
Title: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power…
No. We are not doing that word-washing anymore. Not after what we had to read. Not after people had to live through…..or not live through. Calling children “underage women” or…
This is what we mean when we say, “poverty is intentional.” A Michigan woman, Talia C. Teneyuque, is reportedly charged with food stamp fraud. She allegedly used her Bridge Card…
When Black women were excluded, they built their own. They didn’t wait for permission. They didn’t wait for safety to be handed to them.They created spaces of power and protection—brick…
Respect is supposed to be mutual.But you wouldn’t know that if you listened to today’s men speak. Somehow, women are expected to earn it, perform for it, suffer in silence…