Article Category: Contemporary Profiles

  • Open Letter From Black Women

    Co-sign a petition with thousands of Black women who are denouncing attacks against Black women VP candidates.

    August 7, 2020
    2 minute read
  • The Politics of Ambition

    Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority President Glenda Glover issues a call to arms to her 300,000+ members and to all Black women outraged by attacks intended to erase us.

    August 4, 2020
    4 minute read
  • Monuments to Harriet

    A monument to the Great Harriet Tubman on the National Mall – you say? First, let’s support and honor the existing memorials for one of America’s greatest patriots.

    August 2, 2020
    2 minute read
  • Black Women: The Historic Electability Myth

    Higher Heights CEO Glynda Carr reflects on the political power of Black women who deliver as voters but must swim through a deep sea of gender and racial bias to electability.

    July 17, 2020
    1 minute read
  • Surviving COVID ~ Life After Death

    Melanie Campbell could not be stopped. Fighting to uplift the power of Black women's voices, nothing slowed her down until COVID-19 came to her door.

    July 1, 2020
    4 minute read
  • A ‘Moment’ of Racial Healing

    Who knew that the battle cry to “open up our country” would signal just that? A tsunami of action, bursting the seams of the nation in pursuit of change.

    June 8, 2020
    4 minute read
  • The Legacy Lives

    Michelle Duster is a prolific writer, author and lecturer. Those assets have fueled her sustained mission as the keeper of the light and legacy of her great-grandmother Ida B. Wells.

    April 8, 2020
    7 minute read
  • Pandemic and History

    The deadly COVID-19 pandemic seems new and surreal. But health disparities with life and death consequences are baked into the American story of racialized oppression.

    April 8, 2020
    2 minute read
  • Womanifesta

    Because Black women have always sacrificed, dared, imagined and led us all towards a visionary and daring enactment of what freedom might become.

    January 6, 2020
    2 minute read