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18 May Sleeping While Black

Posted at 16:15h in News, Page and Screen

Breonna Taylor, Tanisha Anderson and Atatiana Jefferson - three unarmed Black women killed by police. But, none of their deaths sparked outrage comparable to the police killings of Black men. ...

30 Mar Diane Nash, Presidential Medal of Freedom Honoree

Posted at 01:30h in Bold and unbossed, Herstory

Meet Diane Nash, the Civil Rights icon received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her leadership during the 1960s fight against segregation....

07 Apr Bessie Coleman – Dared to Fly

Posted at 02:30h in Home Featured Stories, Pathfinders

Young Bessie Coleman, daughter of sharecropper parents of African and Cherokee descent, found distractions from her toil in the Texas cottonfields....

18 May Pandemic Posts

Posted at 16:20h in Uncategorized

We're sharing updates on the pandemics – COVID and the virus of racism and sexism – in the service of creating a safe and equitable nation. See curated news and commentaries....

18 May Pulitzer Recognizes Resistance Lived and Retold

Posted at 16:15h in News, Page and Screen

Two Black women commanded major prizes in the Pulitzer Class of 2020. ...

18 May Sonia Sanchez – Prose and Prophecy

Posted at 16:17h in Black Arts, Black History, Just Saying, Poet Bio, Poetry, Women Poets, Women's History

Sonia Sanchez invokes prose that takes no prisoners but commands prophecy on today and tomorrow....

18 May Septima Clark’s School for Troublemakers

Posted at 16:15h in Citizenship Education Program, Citizenship Schools, Civil Rights Movement, Herstory, Highlander Folk School, Literacy Tests, Pathfinders, Poll Tax, Red Summer, Rosa Parks, Septima Clark, Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC)

More than a witness to history, Clark helped shape it, responding to voter suppression with the indomitable reframe to teach, giving meaning and momentum to the 20th Century suffragists....