Women

If you’re Gen X, you probably grew up hearing the name Strom Thurmond long before you ever heard the name Essie Mae Washington-Williams. For many of us, Thurmond was the …

If the public tantrums around males being tested could stop, that would be great because biological tests, some extremely invasive, have always been a part of the lives of women …

updated from March 27, 2025 It is an age-old, exhausting pattern: expecting Black women to absorb the impact, soothe, cushion, and hold space for men and male biology, even at …

The warning signs are not always obvious. No one usually announces, “Women no longer deserve equal treatment.” History shows that rights are often weakened more quietly—through changes in laws, enforcement, …

Some people judge Black women as if influence comes with a lifetime warranty on another person’s integrity… This is not a defense of Oprah specifically, but there’s a pattern here …

Who Were the Women of the WPC? Founded in Montgomery in 1946 by Mary Fair Burks, an English professor at the historically Black Alabama State College (now Alabama State University), …

I deeply despise stories that depict women finding their way through to the other side of sex work or a season of promiscuity as being synonymous with change for the …

The people carrying the pain and the burdens are often the people least heard Those with the most protection do not get to dictate the survival choices of those who …

For generations, women have been told they were imagining “it.” You can fill in the blank for millions of untold “it” things. “If you speak up, you’re difficult.” “If you …