Womanifesta
Because Black women have always sacrificed, dared, imagined and led us all towards a visionary and daring enactment of what freedom might become.
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Vanguard: How Black Women Overcame Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Black women had to fiercely contend for space in the nation's public square from their arrival on these shores.
Not A Straw In The Way
Julia Nixon’s artful performance reveals Harper’s complex differences with white suffragists over the 15th Amendment.
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo is the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. Appointed in June 2019, she is the first Native American to serve in that position.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper deployed her artistry with words as a weapon to dismantle slavery.