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  • One Million Black Women

    Goldman Sachs is committing $10 billion dollars in direct investment capital to address the racial and gender biases that Black women face.

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    1 minute read

  • Movement Song

    Do not remember me as a bridge nor a roof / as the maker of legends / nor as a trap

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    2 minute read

  • Lucile Bluford – Recording History and Making It

    Lucile Bluford made her mark as a journalist and opponent of segregation in the education system. Now she is immortalized as a branch of the Kansas City Public Library.

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    10 minute read

  • Rosa Parks is More Than a Fairy Tale

    The folk and lore of Rosa Parks does little to complete the picture of the dynamic, skilled and purposeful Civil Rights activist that she was.

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  • Georgia On My Mind

    Voters nationwide turned out in numbers unseen in decades and swept Black women into local and national halls of power.

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  • Say Her Name: Dr. Susan Moore

    In what became a dying declaration Dr. Susan Moore warned, “I put forth and I maintain: If I was White, I wouldn’t have to go through that.”

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    5 minute read

  • The Vitality of Convention Culture

    The history behind Black-led convention culture was kept alive through oral storytelling. This new collection of essays brings to light the missing link between organizing and movement politics.

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    1 minute read

  • The American Caste System

    Isabel Wilkerson lays bare U.S. racial structures with historical parallels to Nazi Germany and India's caste system.

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    2 minute read