Herstory/Hidden Figures
Honoring trailblazers and truth-tellers whose stories deserve more light.
Unerased | Black Women Speak
Who We Are
Unerased | Black Women Speak is a public engagement initiative committed to shaping narrative and creating content that amplifies Black women’s voices.
Our Mission
Unerased | Black Women Speak is dedicated to elevating the often forgotten voices of Black women through narrative development, content creation, curation, and collaboration. Our work reverses erasures—past and present—that have rendered Black women unseen and unheard in the march toward democracy. We exist to empower Black women, our communities and the democratic values that have carried us through generations. We seek alignment and partnerships with Black women-led organizations as collaborators and co-creators—shining light on civic engagement, collective impact and the systems that affirm or challenge us.
Who We Are
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 dared to speak even when unheard. Through narrative, we illuminate what has too often been hidden, silenced, or overlooked. We resist erasure by amplifying the power of Black women's voices in democracy, justice, and joy.
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.