Herstory/Hidden Figures
Honoring trailblazers and truth-tellers whose stories deserve more light.
About Unerased | Black Women Speak
Who We Are
Unerased | Black Women Speak is a public engagement initiative focused on shaping narratives and creating powerful content that amplifies the voices of Black women.
Our Mission
We are committed to lifting the often-overlooked voices of Black women through storytelling, creative content, curation, and collaboration. Our work challenges and reverses the erasures—past and present—that have made Black women invisible in the push for democracy. By empowering Black women and their communities, we reinforce the democratic values that have carried us through generations. Furthermore, we actively pursue strong partnerships with Black women-led organizations. Through these collaborations, we shine a light on civic engagement, shared impact, and the systems that either support or suppress us.
Who We Are
Through narrative, we reveal what has been hidden, quieted, or dismissed. As a result, we resist erasure by amplifying Black women’s voices in democracy, justice, and joy.
Unerased is a public engagement initiative rooted in storytelling and truth-telling. We center the lived experiences of Black women across generations and geographies—those who have shaped culture, led movements, and spoken truths, even when unheard.
, we actively resist erasure and affirm the enduring power of our stories
What We Do
These pillars are not silos—they overlap and inform each other, reflecting the needs and intersectionality of Black women’s realities.
For The Culture
Celebrating the creativity, brilliance, and leadership of Black women cultural workers and creatives in art, literature, music and people’s pride.
Wellness & Joy
Uplifting awareness, practices, stories and spaces that nurture our collective healing and being.
Change in Motion
Advancing advocacy and civic engagement that leads to structural change.
Our Work includes
- Essays, interviews, and profiles rooted in truth and cultural memory
- The PowerPlay newsletter with trends, advocacy tools, and featured voices from our website and digital platforms
- Literary celebrations through curated book lists and spotlights
- Toolkits to mobilize action and protect democratic participation
- The Sisters Civic Circle—a network of local and state leaders building power through shared learning and collaboration
- Partnerships & Sharing
Team Unerased
We are an intergenerational collective of communications experts, storytellers, strategists, creatives, and cultural workers. Our team brings a broad range of skills—communications strategy, social media, design, content production and digital organizing—all in service of lifting up Black women’s voices and visions.
In an era of book bans, disinformation, and growing threats to our histories, we refuse silence. We embrace our full, complex and radiant American story—one braided with triumph, struggle and unstoppable resilience.
Our resistance is rooted in truth. Our strategy is storytelling. Our standard is liberation.