Article Category: Contemporary Profiles

  • 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