07 Apr Rock Stars – Raising The States
We celebrate our Rock Stars seeding power, democratic change, and activism across lines real and imagined. ...
Herstory
06 Nov Saluting Our National Rock Stars
From legal lions to voting-rights knights, these Rock Star women are fusing their collective power to push progressive change. ...
17 Jul Cheffery with a Cause
Sharon Richardson is cheffing community and causes in her kitchen to flip the narrative on the lives of formerly incarcerated women. ...
07 Apr Bessie Coleman – Dared to Fly
Young Bessie Coleman, daughter of sharecropper parents of African and Cherokee descent, found distractions from her toil in the Texas cottonfields....
31 May Digitize or Die
Denise Rolark-Barnes acknowledges that print journalism was her first love but confesses to quietly stoking another passion that was less toil than running a weekly newspaper. ...
17 Jul Paulette Nardal – Birthing the Diaspora
Black Paris in the 1920's was deeply divided by language, culture and ideology. Intellectual Paulette Nardal helped to close the gulf. ...
31 May The Prophet – Molding Wings That Soar
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, unsung Black sculptress, is the first of three-part tribute to Paris Pathfinders by Julia Browne....
18 May Septima Clark’s School for Troublemakers
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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....
03 Aug Magic Eyes That Rarely Close
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in Black Arts, Black History, Moving Pictures, Page and Screen, Photojournalism, Sharon Farmer, Sweet Honey in the Rock, White House Photography, Women Photojournalists
Somewhere between high school bassoon practice and college activism, Sharon Farmer stumbled into photography. A path that would lead to becoming the Chief Official White House Photographer. ...
19 May Magic Eyes That Rarely Close
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in Black Arts, Black History, Bold and unbossed, Herstory, Herstory Feature, Photojournalism, Sharon Farmer, Sweet Honey in the Rock, White House Photography, Women Photojournalists
Sharon Farmer planned on orchestral performance as a career. But somewhere between high school bassoon practice and Ohio State University activism, she stumbled on photography. ...