Herstory/History

    updated from April 19 2024 If you’re a female athlete, you owe your opportunities and career (if you have/had one) to this woman. “What we tolerate is who …

I do not owe anyone a smaller truth so they can maintain a larger lie. Absolutely no woman deserves to be harmed because she spoke a truth somebody did not …

There are some women whose photographs become famous while the most important thing they did receives far less attention. Katoucha Niane was one of them. Born in Guinea in 1960, …

In 1997, Waris Dirie did something that deserves to be remembered as an act of extraordinary courage. She spoke. She was already an internationally known model. People knew her face. …

Now streaming on Amazon Prime There is something very familiar happening around Is God Is. (The Color Purple? Eve’s Bayou? Is that you?) A Black woman creates a story about violence, …

I went to grade school with a girl who might put you on the mind of the loveliness of Nina Simone or Victoria Santa Cruz. People were extremely cruel to …

There is something else we should remember when reading the childhood stories of Maya Angelou, or anyone else who survived something overwhelming Adults cannot travel backward in time and diagnose …

Risk for harm grows where care is uneven. And for Black women, care has never been evenly given. Healthcare didn’t listen. Domestic violence services do not either. Where are Black …

We were taught what women won. We weren’t always taught what women paid. We should talk more about the women who died fighting for women’s civil rights. Women did not …

They tell me that I have despised being told what to do since I was a baby. I LOVE learning. Those are two different things, and sometimes, depending on who …