Category: Herstory/History
Maleness Is Portable Power: 20 Reasons Women Are Still Asked to Move Over
updated from June 22, 2025
Nina Simone's song, “Four Wome [...]
📢 Hidden Herstory: The Leesburg Stockade Girls
In the heat of July 1963, a group of Black girls in Americus, Georgia— [...]
After the Voting Rights Act Ruling: The Good News Is That Black People Are Not Starting From Zero
There is no need to pretend this is good news. Voting rights are impor [...]
Survivors Speak Truth: John Lewis Speaks Truth on Black America’s Fight for Justice
updated from September 20, 2025
Proverbs 12:19 puts it this way.....
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Risk Doesn’t Rise by Accident—What Happens When Care is Uneven for Black Women
Risk for harm grows where care is uneven. And for Black women, car [...]
24 Facts About Genocide: How Women Across Generations and Nations Have Been Targeted in Genocide
When a group has been treated as property, their boundaries are never [...]
🎤💰 Money, Respect & the Woman’s Mic: Black Women’s Songs About Money, Power, and Respect
updated from April 2025
"We're supposed to pretend that if we are "go [...]
🔥 Druella Jones (Aunt Jonas), Alabama, 1915: The Woman Who Lit A Fire Freedom Remembers
updated from May 16 2025
Some women today get married on plantati [...]
Black Truth-Telling on Violence Was Never the Problem
"I've never seen or heard of anything like this!"
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A Nurse Speaks: What They’re Not Telling Black Women About PrEP, Trust, and Risk
"The pharmaceutical industry is profiting off a cycle of deceit,
sel [...]